Sleepless in Supai

From LA, we rode eastward through the San Gabriel mountains toward the Grand Canyon for one of our biggest challenges to date - a 10 mile midsummer hike into the desert canyons in search of neon turquoise waterfalls.  We drove 8 hours on Route 66 to a Native American reservation hotel to rest up for the night before the sunrise hike.  We did our best to get some sleep, but our room backed up onto a railroad track and shook with noise every 30 minutes when a train came through.  We "woke up" at 4am and drove another hour into the desert to the upper rim of the Grand Canyon.

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