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The day was ending, I don't remember what time it was. I love that feeling when traveling of not worry about complying with the premeditated schedules, because there are not schedules. We were entering to the Grand Canyon National Park and a song was playing in the car, the wonderful one of Eddie Vedder, "Society". Couldn't be more appropriated. I knew that song in the film "Into the wild", a return to our origins, a detachment from the material things and the love for our nature. The same nature that was surrounding our car. In an instant the sun appeared between the top of the trees, timidly but dazzling. It didn't even seem like the one of other sunsets. I asked my parents to stop the car in the next enable area to visitors in order to see the full sun. It took us a couple of minutes but it seemed an eternity to me. I really didn't want to miss it. My sister and I got out of the car and run to a steep place with no trees, at the edge of the canyon. We run with a very big smile and screaming at each other "run, run before it hides". I can't explain that feeling, some ones run to win a golden, some other run to catch the bus, we run not to lose that sunset, in that canyon, knowing that it would be disappointing if we missed it. But we didn't. There it was, redder than ever, believe me, more wonderful than ever. It was surrounded by a mist, and there was a soft wind that moved our hair. I closed my eyes and I promised myself that I couldn't forget that moment. I felt so lucky. That is the feeling, the reason and the chimera why we travel. Feeling that you are in a place that has been there long time before you were born and it will be still there long time after you die. That Canyon deserves a reverence. We stayed until the sun was gone, it left leaving the feeling of being orphans. Suddenly the sentence of the song in the car made sense: "you think you have to want more than you need..." Actually, knowing we are free is all we really need. It will always amaze me the necessity of humans of escaping, of loosing themselfs first to find themselfs traveling.