Picking up where I left off – part 2

Another early start. I woke up in the dark Saturday morning and, in a pointed reminder that I’m nearly 63, my body seemed to be screaming, “ALEVE! ALEVE! YOU BETTER GET SOME PAIN KILLING DRUGS INTO ME OR YOU’LL BE …

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 …