“Here’s a tip…” – unknown Can you help me understand “complimentary” valet? The other weekend my friends and I went to dinner at Leon’s, a great little spot on upper King in Charleston, after an alumni event that we had gone to earlier in the evening. I was sporting white jeans – lord help me.…
It’s been a little while since my last post for many reasons, including being obligated to file my tax returns. Tax season is over but there are just some things I can’t let go! Warning – this one is riveting, folks.
Part 11: Reflections on an Epic Adventure “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind,…
Part 10: Heading Home “Anything you have read about the Grand Canyon is a lie. Language falters and dies before the fact. The experience is inexpressible in words. The Grand Canyon is its own language written across space, causality and time. See how puny these words are. Do not believe them. Go there.” – Amil…
Part 9: Take Out “Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away, until what we put off ’til tomorrow has now become today. So don’t you sit upon the shoreline and say you’re satisfied, choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.” – Garth Brooks, The River Ugh.…
Part 8: The Lower Canyon, Days 12-13 “One hundred and seventy-nine miles downstream from Lee’s Ferry, directly below Toroweap Overlook, the greatest river in the West runs up against a picket line of submerged boulders, roars over the edge, and detonates. This is Lava Falls, a quarter-mile stretch of white water that is considered by…
Part 7: The Lower Canyon, Days 10-11 “You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil. . .through its labyrinths.” – John Wesley Powell Day 10 was slated to kick off with…
Part 6: The Lower Canyon, Days 8-9 “When your spirit cries for peace, come to a world of canyons deep in an old land; feel the exultation of high plateaus, the strength of moving water, the simplicity of sand and grass, and the silence of growth.” – August Fruge The sound of an irritated rattlesnake…
Part 5: The Lower Canyon, Days 6-8 “In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.” – Helen Hayes The Colorado River is a 1,450 mile long river in North America that begins at…
Part 4: The Upper Canyon, Days 5-6 “The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon – forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.” – John Wesley Powell Major…
