Louise Goes to the Grand Canyon

continuing my quantification bent:
Trip statistics!

10 days
3,832 miles driven
States visited: 10
States new to Louise: 3 (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona)
First tumbleweed seen: Day 3, N.M.
Highest gas price: $3.21, Santa Fe
Lowest gas price: $2.17, Des Moines

Grand Canyon!
Bright Angel Trail miles hiked: 9.2 (4.6 down, 4.6 up) = Halfway down to river
Time: 6 hours
Conditions: SUNNY as HELL
Rim Trail miles: 6
# of known gruesome deaths in Grand Canyon: 700+
# of gruesome deaths Louise imagined for herself in Grand Canyon: 33,000

Time given you to eat a 72-oz. steak for free at The Big Texan Steak Ranch (Amarillo, TX):
1 hr.
% who succeed: 1 in 6
All-time record: 9 minutes 30 seconds (!) by Cincinnati Reds pitcher Frank Pastore
(who clearly deserves to have his name spread throughout the world)

Cows seen: 623,000,000 (rough estimate)
Books read: 6
Time home before I got on the computer: 1/2 hour