darn good candy

we took a picture next to a sign advertising "darn good candy" while driving through Texas today. Ahh, Texas - as if its not flat and tree-less enough to make it a boring drive, we were listening to Numbers for a large portion of it.
It's been another long day of driving. Up and on the road at 7am and we pitched the first tent of the trip over 12 hours later. Its been an eventful day, we stopped at a few not-that-scenic overlooks, Holly busted her toe open and bled all over her new chacos, I bullied a giant buzzard around some rocks... oh yeah and we drove through some beauuuutiful landscapes while going through New Mexico. So far, NM gets my vote for best effort at making 12 hours of driving seem like fun. We're in Arizona now, camping right next to Meteor Crater National Monument. We won't get to see the crater itself because we're up tomorrow at 5am to finish the 6 hours of driving to get to the North edge of the Grand Canyon. We're going to spend the day exploring, hopefully 'backcountry' camp in the actual park, and then move on towards Las Vegas in the morning. We're hoping to catch both sunset and sunrise on the Canyon. I doubt a post will happen tomorrow night - unless the Canyon has some impressive WiFi. I'm just so impressed that this entire campsite/RV park thing we're at now has WiFi.
I had better be getting to sleep soon - tomorrow's a big day! I've never had a huge urge to see the Grand Canyon, but its our first National Park of the trip and I'm pretty pumped that we decided to go to the north edge since its visited less often and has some beautiful things to see. Driving through NM got me pumped about rocks.
Goodnight!