Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - Recapture Dam Recreation Area, Blanding UT
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White Canyon, Fry Canyon UT, April 22, 2011
North or south, that's the question
Which way from here. Tomorrow my mail should be in at the Blanding postoffice and I can head out. In a few days I need to start the push to get back to New York around June 1st. The rough plan has been to head north from here to skirt around the Rockies. It's really a bit early in the season to be going through them and it now looks like it may be a bit early in the season to be going around them to the north, up along the western edge of Colorado and across southern Wyoming. The last few days here in Blanding have seen record or near record cold nights. I'm tired of cold - and spoiled by the last couple of weeks in the warmth of Arizona, Nevada and southwestern Utah. But I really don't feel like going around to the south of the rockies only to end up in the usual corridor eastbound. I'm tired of that too. I'd rather take a more northerly route.
So I will. A fresh route eastbound trumps the cold.
Night camp
Boondocked - Recapture Dam Recreation Area, Blanding UT
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - no signal
- Locate the Recapture Dam Recreation Area on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Others Choose the Path of Healing
The labor camp in Erfurt and, after the war, the refugee camp in Mainz were all I knew when I came here [from Germany] in 1947 at the age of seven. Like many camp survivors, it was not the experience itself that dogged me as much as the why of it. The why seems clearer every day: those who see themselves as victims, nations included, have license to commit these things. Others choose the path of healing.
Michael Guran, architect, in Jesse Monongya, Opal Bears and Lapis Skies by Lois Sherr Dubin