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Colorado Springs is probably, Bart figures, as good a place to start as any, which is convenient, seeing as how that's where his door leads. And it's a pretty good view to begin with; mountains have that affect.

To be rather more specific, his door deposits them directly outside a mall; it's probably best not to ask what he was doing in there previous to entering the bar. It doesn't really matter, anyway, because now he turns to Jenny with a grin.

"Welcome to Earth."

Elevation: 6,370 feet.

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She finally looks away from the surf and towards Bart. "You ever try it?"

"Nah."

He probably should, though. Eventually.

"Oh."

A part of her was hoping he would have. Jenny frowns slightly, attention quickly turning aback to the surfers.

"Well. It still looks like fun."

This, Bart considers, may have to be their second jaunt to Earth. Or something.

In the meantime: "Ready for the next destination?"

She takes one last longing look at the surfers and nods. "Yeah. Surprise me!"

He can do that!

...Oh wait, she meant destination, not that kiss, right? No problem, he can sweep her up in his arms again and carry her off at superspeed at the same time!

And when they come to a stop it's at the top of the Grand Canyon. Ta-da!

Either way, it's a good surprise. Both are, really. Jenny barely has time to register the kiss before they're off again, her sweatshirt trailing from her hand in the wind behind them.

They come to a stop and this time, she doesn't bother to get out of his arms. Instead she places a hand on his cheek and kisses him back.

She'll notice the kind of amazing canyon in a moment.

Yeah, well. It's clearly secondary, anyway.

And when she does eventually pull away, he has a smug grin on his face.

"Show off," she giggles, carefully helping herself out of his arms.

Three, two, on--

"Wow!"

"And this," he says, sweeping his arms out grandly, "is the Grand Canyon."

For obvious reasons.

"Good name," Jenny chirps in cheerfully. She can't take her eyes off of it. The canon seems to stretch on forever and it goes down so very far and the trees and the desert and the river below. "Really fitting. Really amazing."

"I know."

Smugger Bart is smugger.

"Like increadible," she continues, beaming at him. "How'd it get here?"

Uh-

"Erosion."

:D?

"Erosion. A lot of erosion, I'd imagine. Over a really long, long time. Thousands of years, I think."

Jenny giggles, shaking her head in amazement.

"Are there a lot of places in the United States like this?"

"Not exactly like this. This one's kinda one-of-a-kind."

Jenny walks towards the edge of the canyon, falling to her knees and trying to look as directly downward as she can.

She turned her head, regarding Bart curiously for a moment. "What about on Earth?"

"Uh. The Colca Canyon. Peru."

Geography time?

Clearly!

"Huh?"

"It's in another country."

He does not, alas, bave a handy place to steal a helpful and educational map from.

Another country. She really is going to have to obtain more information on Earth one of these days. Jenny had no idea it's this complicated. She turns on her back, ponytail dangling over the edge. She looks at him curiously from the corner of her eyes.

"Near to the United States or further?"

Shrug. "Kinda on the far side, but there's farther."

Jenny would nod if she could. Instead, she reaches to play with a stray branch from some unfamiliar Earth tree (a pine, the narration fills in). A hawk flies overhead and Jenny points and laughs.

"Can we see it another time then? I think I like canyons so far."

"Yeah, sure."

Eyeing her to see if she's ready for the next stop or wants to stick around here for a while longer.

She giggles and tumbles into a standing position, not at all afraid of falling off the tall cliff.

"You don't sound as enthused."