Ten years ago, I started a blog entry that quickly spiraled out of control and grew so long that it became a book titled Stay In The Magic – A Voyage Into The Beauty Of The Grand Canyon (pictured above). As I went to publish it, I was exhausted with the process and wanted nothing more to do with it, so I never created a digital version for eBook readers, nor did I really share much of anything online about the experience.

Over the next few weeks, I hope to post a chapter a day that will represent each day of the trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon National Park. This was a life-changing moment in Caroline’s and my routine and has played a role in many of our subsequent adventures.

Now that this is becoming a blog entry, it’s going to be extraordinarily long, with 85,000 words and about 300 images. I’ll be doing my best from day to day to keep up with transferring the text and images over here, but I’m not really sure how much work will be involved with this endeavor.

I’m still considering if, at some point, I’ll remove this from being out of sequence on my blog and redate these entries so they fall sequentially into where they belong; maybe I’ll have two copies among the 2,250 blog entries.

My big hope here is that I can avoid cringing at what I wrote so long ago, as I’ve never returned to its pages.