Plane, bus, plane, van, horse, helicopter, raft, speed boat, van, bus, plane. It seemed almost every mode of transportation in the short span of 6 days getting to the Grand Canyon and back again. We missed trains and motorcycles, hot air balloon? Each mode of transportation offered a new perspective of the classic western landscape. Scale. The vast quantity of the open western landscape, immensity of space, but also uninhabitable space and the evidence of the drought that continues to be ever present.