Great write-up, Tri Girl. You know, it kinda made me feel bad that I have only been to the GC once, and that was because we were moving away from AZ and I made myself plan a trip to see it in the dead of winter.
I felt a little nostalgic. There's so much of AZ I haven't seen... mostly the beautiful parts, too. The valley got so ugly, it's unfortunate that is what I remember.