Arizona – Utah May and June 2017

The Tucson wrap-up In the historical narrative I started before lunch, I’d reached the overlapping moment when Americans in the east were drafting a declaration and fighting a war of independence from England while in Tucson, Spaniards, under the leadership …

Too soon for some history about Tucson? In my first post about this trip, I wrote a bit of a cautionary travel tale based, in part, on my experiences on this last full travel day. The lesson is, “Be prepared.” …

Coincidental matters Before I begin the main course of this final entry, I want to share a story that was published in the 1 August 2017 print edition of the Washington Post’s Health and Science section. The thrust of the …

No Beating a Dead Horse As I left Arches to drive the short 26 miles to Dead Horse Point, (probably half that distance for a bird), in another demonstration of the importance of timing, there was no longer a backup …

The rest of the supporting cast More than 100 million years before the Entrada Sandstone (that I introduced at the end of the previous post) formed as part of a massive desert, this area was a foreland marine basin that …