My Journey, The Skywalk, Mississippi River, Mount Rushmore National Memorial

My Journey
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My Journey
The United States of America is one of the most beautiful places in the world. The land is blessed with both geographical and manmade features that totally brings out this beauty. These features include historical sites, battle sites, rivers, cities, monuments, and many others. My love for travelling and the interest in learning the American Geography was one of the motivators to travel all over these great places in our land. Winning a Kennedy-Habsburg-Matthews-Hudson Fellowship was a game changer that made this dream come true. I was able to tour around the America and got a chance to write all about my experiences of the awesome journey. Accordingly, this paper focuses on the description of some of these great places I visited, the findings made and all the experiences that came by.
Grand Canyon National Park
My first stop was at Grand Canyon national park in Arizona. The view of this place was just ecstatic. The park is made of natural unique combinations of geologic color and erosional forms in form of bands showing millions of years of geological history in cross section. The Grand Canyon is immense in size that is 446km long, 1.8km wide and 1.6km deep. From the South Rim at the Mather point view, I was able to view the canyon using the free park shuttle buses that were offered. I also got deep into the canyon by horse riding through the marked trails just to enjoy the scenery. I got to visit some of the important landmark buildings in the Grand Canyon including: Hermits Rest (1914), The Hopi House (1905) The Lookout Studio (1914) and the Phantom Ranch (1922). There was also a museum and an information center which gave all the information about the Grand Canyon. The park orientation film gave the overview of how this park was initiated and its changes over the years.


The Skywalk
While still in Grand Canyon, I had to visit and use the Skywalk. This Skywalk is an amazing engineering and technology work. The Skywalk is a horseshoe walk completed on March 2007. This was a great idea of a business man called David Jin. It is a glass walkway that stretches out o...