Two weekends ago was supposed to be about watching balloons flying among red rocks, but the weather decided to change that. The 24th Red Rock Rally in Gallup was scheduled to occur at the same time slot it has held each year since the event kicked off- during the first weekend in December. By...
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Two California condors rest on the girders of one of the Navajo Bridges in northern Arizona. Once thought extinct, the condors have made a small comeback, and they find the area around Navajo Bridges an attractive place to hang out at.
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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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Last weekend I joined my parents on a short trip they had both been looking forward to taking for some time. Before COVID-19 hit, they were planning to return to Monument Valley for a stay- and then the world shut down for a year and some. In recent weeks, the Navajo Nation and its...
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I was fortunate enough to have some time off available to burn at work, and an offering of generosity to nudge me to get me on the road the first weekend of March. About two weeks ago, a work colleague I talk regularly with about all kinds of sports let me know she and...
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I appreciated getting to spend the last day or so with my sister and her family. After roading up to Monument Valley in Utah on Friday for a Saturday explore, I left from the park around 12 or so and trekked east, through Shiprock, Farmington, Chama, and Tres Piedras to land in Red River...
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I spent a good chunk of time on Sunday morning trying to sit back down into my research efforts on Anza. Some of the time was spent trying to read a few more pages in the Anza book, and some of the time was also spent transcribing chicken scratch notes written on a legal...
Read more →When I started high school, I was a kid in transition. I was growing at odd intervals. My acne ebbed and receded like waves on a beach. I was in a lot of activities, and I was pretty anonymous in all of them. And I was adrift socially (as I have often been since)....
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