It’s the journey, AN D TH E DESTIN A TI O N .
The 'awesome' Grand Canyon
the meandering Colorado River, truly has the ‘wow’ factor. Nearby is the somewhat smaller
but arguably even more beautiful Bryce Canyon in Utah, as well as the famed Painted Desert in Arizona, a site best viewed at sunset.
America's soul Late evening also has a special quality in South Dakota’s aptly named Badlands, with their seemingly endless succession of barren canyons, as it does out on the West Coast along the romantic beaches of California, Oregon and Washington State. From the mangrove swamps of
the Gulf region to the tree-lined shores of Maine, the sand dunes of Cape Cod and the Pacific cliffs, America has a magical coastline. But even more than the landing
places of the Vikings, the Spanish conquistadores and the Pilgrim Fathers, or the iron road of the railway age, it was the country’s mighty rivers – especially the 2,320- mile long Mississippi and the Missouri that feeds into it – that played the greatest role in defining America. They remain a major attraction for those seeking America’s soul. A driving trip south from Memphis across the alluvial plains of the Mississippi Delta makes for a true holiday of a lifetime. All the country’s major natural
and the 7th Cavalry flashing across their mind? Awesome is a word that could well
have been coined with the Grand Canyon specifically in mind. Explored on foot, on horseback or aboard a helicopter, this sinuous gorge, cut by
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waterways – save Florida’s St. John’s River – flow in an essentially south-easterly direction but trade along their banks played a massive part in opening the country’s frontiers. The sight of a stern- wheeler churning its way north from New Orleans is a genuine icon of America's Deep South states.
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