The one electronic accessory I didn't bring on this roadtrip is the USB cable for the camera. I have great photos but no way to upload them. Pictures come later...
This moment has me sitting on a porch in remote Boulder, Utah looking south as early summer light fades over the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. I have my dog sleeping at my feet, a small glass of 2005 Beaujolais Villages at my elbow, and the sound of robins and wind in the cottonwoods. I'm waiting for the stars but it's a partly cloudy evening (moving slowly eastward across the sky) so I’m not hopeful. The war and the future and the Air Force and Las Vegas seem a million miles away. Tomorrow I’ll take my five year old and three year old children walking down these mysterious canyons that drain the western edge of the Colorado Plateau. We’ll be looking for smooth sand, cool water, coyote tracks and pictographs and I will be savoring every moment…
