May 4, 2008
Grand Canyon, Arizona East rim
All Along the Watchtower
From Zion NP headed south out of Utah on Hwy 89. Zion was a hike through another dimension. Spent a lifetime there,... crammed into a couple days.
My mind drifts back for moments, then as fast snatched away at the stark beauty of the Vermillion Cliffs on the northeast / left side. The desert is beautiful. There's nobody out here.
Kaneb is just north of the Utah state line. About 40 miles going into Arizona is Navajo Bridge crossing the Colorado River. This is the 1st bridge between the UT / AZ built in 1929. That's how isolated and rugged the terrain is here. (Page, AZ / Glenn Canyon dam is about 10 miles NE.) Before 1929 they used Lee's Ferry about 5 miles up river. Let's go see.
Lee's Ferry was an early Mormon family river crossing. The landing is still used today as a staging / launching point for rafters goin down river through the Grand Canyon. Magnificent red rock and strata; blue green Colorado river.
Then it's onto the Grand Canyon. Hwy 89south to Cameron, AZ,... hand a right onto Hwy 64 onto East Canyon rim drive. Into Navajo nation.
The land... High arid plain is absolutley breathtaking, and we're not even to the Grand Canyon. I'm excited.
And get to the East rim.... and there's the canyon.... and the watchtower. Just blown away at the serene setting. What a building. Sublime. Can't really describe this. Powerful. Beyond beauty. It's looking into the abyss of time... of eternity.
January 22, 1974... listening to Dylans "All along the Watchtower" was amazing. The Dylan and the Dead version in 1988 was in my mind while viewing here. Sureal! Listen to that version while looking at these pics.
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May 4, 2008
Grand Canyon, Arizona East rim
All Along the Watchtower
From Zion NP headed south out of Utah on Hwy 89. Zion was a hike through another dimension. Spent a lifetime there,... crammed into a couple days.
My mind drifts back for moments, then as fast snatched away at the stark beauty of the Vermillion Cliffs on the northeast / left side. The desert is beautiful. There's nobody out here.
Kaneb is just north of the Utah state line. About 40 miles going into Arizona is Navajo Bridge crossing the Colorado River. This is the 1st bridge between the UT / AZ built in 1929. That's how isolated and rugged the terrain is here. (Page, AZ / Glenn Canyon dam is about 10 miles NE.) Before 1929 they used Lee's Ferry about 5 miles up river. Let's go see.
Lee's Ferry was an early Mormon family river crossing. The landing is still used today as a staging / launching point for rafters goin down river through the Grand Canyon. Magnificent red rock and strata; blue green Colorado river.
Then it's onto the Grand Canyon. Hwy 89south to Cameron, AZ,... hand a right onto Hwy 64 onto East Canyon rim drive. Into Navajo nation.
The land... High arid plain is absolutley breathtaking, and we're not even to the Grand Canyon. I'm excited.
And get to the East rim.... and there's the canyon.... and the watchtower. Just blown away at the serene setting. What a building. Sublime. Can't really describe this. Powerful. Beyond beauty. It's looking into the abyss of time... of eternity.
January 22, 1974... listening to Dylans "All along the Watchtower" was amazing. The Dylan and the Dead version in 1988 was in my mind while viewing here. Sureal! Listen to that version while looking at these pics.
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C- Bob Dylan
All Along The Watchtower
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”
“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl
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