I've been there too, and it was pretty spectacular. The thing is, it takes a certain reference point to appreciate. A more mature one. For kids, and the young

I've been there too, and it was pretty spectacular. The thing is, it takes a certain reference point to appreciate. A more mature one. For kids, and the younger they are, much of their daily lives of filled with continual new and overwhelming experiences. Every experience is new or very fresh. Experiences like "I've never been this cold before", or "The sun is too hot" are just as overwhelming as "That is a very deep crack in the ground", but discomfort is also more immediate, and they haven't learned to attenuate and ignore discomfort signals like adults have. Likewise, they have less grasp of time. When you are six, or ten, a decade is your whole life or more, and waiting an hour seems like forever, while for you and me, it is a blink in the day. 100 years for kids is nigh unimaginable, and an appreciation for the untold years it took to erode the grand canyon is unavailable, mentally. So a visit to something like the grand canyon can be less than impressive. It does make me wonder what a thousand year old being would appreciate, that I would find uninteresting or unimaginable.