Monthly Archives: July 2022

It’s probably fair to say that I visited Calgary as something of an accidental tourist. In the introductory post to this series I mentioned the irony that my old expired passport has more entry visa stamps from Germany than any …

In some of the previous entries about early human habitation in North America I’ve explored some of the evidence regarding how and when the earliest people reached the continent so I won’t cover that ground again here. Instead, I’ll start …

Recently, I was talking with someone about this Olympic host cities project and he expressed surprise that Salt Lake City had hosted a Winter Olympics because his impression of the city was that it’s relatively flat. He isn’t wrong. SLC …

Headnote. For those of you who have read all the posts from my 2017 trip to Arizona and Utah if this post seems familiar, you’re not mistaken. It’s lifted almost verbatim from a section of the post titled “The Salt …

On 8 February 2002, athletes and officials representing 77 National Olympic Committees – including for the first time athletes from Cameroon, Hong Kong, Nepal, Tajikistan, and Thailand – entered Rice-Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah for …