Wanted to go for a morning nature hike before leaving Grand Canyon yesterday. But two things kept us back. 1) It was still pitch dark until about 8 a.m. 2) It was -5 degrees outside. It’s been a while since I’ve felt -5. Great reminder of why I live in San Francisco. That sort of temperature is just wrong.…

[](http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jcieplinski/anL1md0NJsr0cKwcqnXbYYA0yLSmpqlpZKcxKQ55hgngJ7xe7l9vf7WDnALQ/IMG_0613.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg)This is the only photo I can post from the Grand Canyon right now. Not because I didn’t take any others. I actually took more than 200. (More on that in a second.) But this one is the only one I thought to take with my iPhone. And I almost forgot to take one, just for the…

Throughout Phoenix, good 3G. Twenty minutes north of Phoenix all the way to Flagstaff? Same as in New Mexico. Phone says I have full bars of edge, but instead I really have nothing. This time, MotionX seems to have done its caching better, because the lack of signal didn’t cause it to go wacko as often. I think what’s happening with that is actually a loss of GPS accuracy, which results in MotionX thinking it needs to remap the trip, which then leads to it realizing it doesn’…

It was close to the hotel, and it was open early. And other than the doorknob, which is placed in such a way as to guarantee injury for a lefty like me, it was great. [](http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jcieplinski/BZZ50YjgenEkf8VBOnB2Be9uGEpfQ4LmclewxIkDREWgdxQin0YgfVYcgtje/IMG_0611.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg)Your food is great, Matt. Now fix the damn doorknob.…

Well, we made it from El Paso to Phoenix, as planned. I ended up getting a tape deck adapter for the iPhone, after all, which has helped a lot. On the playlist: Kaki King, James Taylor, Led Zep, and Police. A lot of songs I haven’t listened to in ages. AT&T? Totally dead through most of New Mexico and Arizona. Bouncing in and out of Edge signal. When I finally bounce back to 3G in Tucson? Slowest 3G ever. This had a large impact on my GPS…