At the beginning of May, Hannah and I spent two weeks backpacking in southern Utah, around Zion and Grand Staircase - Escalante. We were there just long enough to wet our appetites. On the way back, I picked up Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. How is it that I haven’t read this book before?

I love that desert, I do. There is much about this world that is wild, untamed and fantastic. Go. Take a long walk and breathe it in. Your life may depend on it.

And then, there’s Niagara Falls. Makes me want to cry.