First built in 1929, the first bridge on this site, initially called Grand Canyon Bridge (and renamed Navajo Bridge five years later), was constructed to replace passage across the Colorado River and Marble Canyon by ferry. In 1873, at a location 5 miles north of the bridges, a landing called Lees Ferry had been...
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I left mid-morning on Wednesday, March 2, and headed west on I-40. While the ultimate destination of the trip was Kanab, Utah, I planned to get there in two days, and make a few stops on the way. By a stroke of blind foresight last year, I had purchased a National Parks Annual Access...
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I thought I would take some time tonight to figure out roughly how many miles I put on the truck with this trip. I wanted to do this in part because I am nearing the 200,000 mile mark with my truck (I’m about 600 miles short), and I wanted to see about where I...
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For Christmas this year, my family generously pooled funds and bought me a ticket to attend the Outsiders Photography Conference that would be held March 4th through 6th in Kanab, Utah. Time marched forward, and prior to the conference weekend, I put a request in at work to take off some extra days around...
Read more →As my first cat gets older, she gets a little wackier. With the addition of a new flat mate, she lost some of her control of her environment, and despite Po being in no way a threat to her (he avoids her mostly), she is more wound up each day than she used to...
Read more →Where did you come from, tiny ball of thorns, that you would hug my shoe, and, crushed, yet wander back with me to my home where trodden into my house and scuffed onto that sprawling kitchen rug you let go of my sole and chose to lay in wait a day or days for...
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