How 'Bout Some West Coast Pics...

[Smiling JOe]

John R, I love the canyon floor photo which looks like a flame.

(Did you notice the rocks holding my tent in place?)

 

[John R]

John R, I love the canyon floor photo which looks like a flame.

(Did you notice the rocks holding my tent in place?)

yeah, i saw them, the only way.

it really would be nice to walk around in glen canyon before i die. hopefully the dam will be decommissioned sooner than later.


jr

 

[DBOldford]

Another great movie set in the Hoover Dam area is "Lost in America," with Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty. This is one of the funniest movies we've ever seen. It's the story of a couple of L.A. yuppies who quit their up-scale jobs, sell their home, and hit the road in an executive motor home, "in search of the real America." One of their first stops is the strip in Las Vegas...you get the picture. Every time I see this movie, I laugh until I cry. Beautiful scenery of the American West, too. Don'tcha just love Albert Brooks?

 

[lindatat]

Another great movie set in the Hoover Dam area is "Lost in America," with Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty. This is one of the funniest movies we've ever seen. It's the story of a couple of L.A. yuppies who quit their up-scale jobs, sell their home, and hit the road in an executive motor home, "in search of the real America." One of their first stops is the strip in Las Vegas...you get the picture. Every time I see this movie, I laugh until I cry. Beautiful scenery of the American West, too. Don'tcha just love Albert Brooks?

Yes, I love Albert Brooks! I think my favorite movie of his is "Mother" with Debbie Reynolds. Anyone who's ever had to deal with their aging parents will appreciate that movie.

 

[Allifunn]

Everyone needs to see Hoover Dam and Sedona once in their lifetime.

Never seen the "Dam" but Sedona...a big slice of heaven! I tried to up load the pics I took last year..but I have to make them smaller...no time right now :roll:

 

[Teresa]

Joe, that's a great pic of your tent at the lake, and being an opponent of dams, i must post some other links and pics. from the Zephyr in Moab, http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/stiles-stories/letsdrainlakepowell.htm

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Projects/Dams/glen.html

http://www.ecohike.com/images.htm

http://rosebud.moenkopi.net/pics/utah0404/powell/powell6.html

while i agree that the dams are quite the architectural feat, the environmental impacts are horrendous. and, for the record, i've been in lake powell.

everything below is now under water...


jr

wow! thanks for that info! very thought provoking!

 

[DD]

Joe, that's a great pic of your tent at the lake, and being an opponent of dams, i must post some other links and pics. from the Zephyr in Moab, http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/stiles-stories/letsdrainlakepowell.htm

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Projects/Dams/glen.html

http://www.ecohike.com/images.htm

http://rosebud.moenkopi.net/pics/utah0404/powell/powell6.html

while i agree that the dams are quite the architectural feat, the environmental impacts are horrendous. and, for the record, i've been in lake powell.

everything below is now under water...


jr

(don henley/stan lynch/jai winding/frank simes)

The rains have come early, they say
We're all gonna wash away
Well, that's all right with me
If heaven's torrent can wash clean
The arrogance that lies unseen
In the damage done since we have gone
Where we ought not to be
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long

Lakes and levees, dams and locks
They put that river in a box
It was running wild
And men must have control
We live our lives in starts and fits
We lose our wonder bit by bit
We condescend and in the end
We lose our very souls
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long

The dirty water washes down
Poisoning the common ground
Taking sins of farm and town
And bearing them away
The captains of industry
And their tools on the hill
They're killing everything divine
What will i tell this child of mine

(solo)
I make a church out of words
As the years dull my senses
And i try to hold on to the world that i knew
I struggle to cross generational fences
And the beauty that still remains??
I can touch it through you
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long

Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long

Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long

Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
Roll on