Picking up where I left off

It’s still yesterday (in blog time, of course). As I noted at the end of the previous post, I’d finished walking chronologically backward and reached the beginning of the Trail of Time but still had barely covered a third of …

What makes the Grand Canyon grand – a continuation

So, how did the canyon come to be?  Let’s return briefly to that figure of 70 million years ago. It was about this time that the North American Plate started to override the Pacific Plate and the Rocky Mountains began …

What makes the Grand Canyon grand – a rant about science

Those of you who have read previous trip journals might recall that sections in blue are a digression and not necessarily directly related to my recounting of my travel. Most of this post is precisely that so feel free to …