I know why I picked up this bottle cap you see above. Primarily I removed it from its rusting place at the turnout off Utah Highway 261 just before reaching Interstate 163 otherwise known as the Valley of the Gods otherwise known as the Middle of the Big Nowhere because I hate litter and I …
Though we trotted the video camera around with us throughout the entire vacation, oddly I ended up only using it twice, once to capture aspects of the storm that deluged us while we were in Arches National Park and once to catch some condors flying waaaaaay off in the distance when we were in Vermilion …
So a few miles away from the Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River on the Vermilion Cliffs Highway (No. 89A) in Arizona and practically right next door to the Cliff Dweller Lodge Susan and I stayed in with the pups that first night, we were enthralled not only by a bevy of balanced rocks along …
In between tending to the pups today I’ve been going through the 45,026,007,235 vacation photos Susan and I took and this one that Susan snapped of me takin’ her easy July 10 in the smaller of the two portals that make up Partition Arch in Utah’s Arches National Park is near the top of my …
Another from the “One Should Never Fail To Acknowledge Kindness†file… or perhaps the “One Should Never Fail To Make Others Never Fail To Recognize Kindness” file: July 17, 2006 Grand Canyon National Park Attn: Joe Alston, Superintendent P.O. Box 129 Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 Dear Superintendent Alston, As part of a 4,500-mile, 16-day vacation …
From the “One Should Never Fail To Acknowledge Kindness” file: July 17, 2006 The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Attn: Officer Woolbright / Dist. 3 No. 34 P.O. Box 39 Flagstaff, AZ 86002-0039 Dear Officer Woolbright, I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for the courtesy you showed in issuing me a warning …
I’m exhausted so I’ll keep this brief, or fail to. Susan and I and the four pups (believed by the kennel caretaker at the Grand Canyon to be border collie mixes) are home in six respective individual pieces. We left the Grand Canyon at 7:45 a.m. and after arrived home 515 miles later (including a …