Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

Got distracted, so as so often happens, my Friday post is here today! Some of you may have noticed that I was gone most of April. I was off enjoying a mobile COVID pod, otherwise known as rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon! I'm still working on the photos (of course), but here's a quick look at some from the first two days of the trip! We booked with AZRA--Arizona Raft Adventures--and were extremely happy with the whole trip. The trip started and ended in Flagstaff--so with a 3-hour bus ride. This might have been our chance to start getting to know each other, but masked and still thinking about COVID, we tended to stay in our seats. In my case, that was the front seat, in my quest to avoid motion sickness. Peering eagerly ahead as we near the river--knowing the cliffs ahead (the Vermilion Cliffs) are on the other side. We stopped at the Navajo Bridge--the only river crossing for a long way in either direction--to see the Canyon for the first time, and to check