Hundreds of residents and campers are evacuated by helicopter after heavy rains in the Grand Canyon, including one private boating party of 16. No injuries have been reported.

echoweaver and her husband are on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. It sounds like their vacation may have gotten a lot more exciting than they bargained for. I'm hoping they turn ( Read more... )

Saturday bright and early we flew out to Chicago to visit friends. verin_the_brown and her husband (who I'll call Orcus for the remainder of this piece, because it amuses me) and baby Malaprop ( Read more... )

So I'm going to be in New York City over the long holiday weekend to catch up with seanmoon who I haven't seen in eleventy-billion years.
What's worth seeing? If I had to see one thing or eat at a particular restaurant, what would it be? We'll be staying in Manhattan.

keywords to jumpstart the imagination:
books, museums, gardens, red wine, dessert, art ( Read more... )

... in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city where I was born.

In no particular order, I saw Return of the King again (and who, for the love of dog, brings a toddler to that movie?), went to several Pueblo mission ruins and meditated on the tragic course of history, walked along a mesa full of a thousand-year old petroglyphs, took the tram up Sandia ( Read more... )