Can you guess where this picture was taken? Can you guess when?
I don't see any real clues to give away the year, or decade. Not sure what those pants say.
But this is definitely the Grand Canyon. Troy and I were very lucky once, a number of years ago, to take a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. On paddle rafts and rafts with oars. Not motorized rafts. We did the upper half, in a week's time. It was thrilling.
Now, do the glasses help give the decade away? 1989! Troy and I had been dating a couple of years and it was our first real vacation together. It was perfect for Troy because it involved the outdoors, hiking, camping, archeology and geology. We have done several of these type of vacations over the years, but never quite to the scale of the Grand Canyon trip. It was our Grand Vacation.
I dug this picture out because Kalyn bought a pair of glasses similar to these the other day and I wanted her to see me wearing them 23 years ago. It is now my profile picture on facebook. And tonight while watching tv I heard someone mention Winslow, Arizona, which made me think of an older (than us at the time) British gentleman who was on this trip with us who was from there. I dug out our photo album and journal from the trip to see if I could find his name. I found that I didn't talk much about the people we were there with in the journal, which surprised me because I have thought about them several times over the years. And conversations with them are what I remember most about the trip. We always meet interesting people on vacation, doctors, teachers, other people interested in geology, people who have traveled all over the world.
Taking out the photo album prompted a conversation with Troy about the trip, and all the similar type trips we have taken since. How Troy always volunteers to do the risky stuff, he's very adventurous.
And there is always plenty of adventure on a rafting trip.
And then Kalyn jumped in on the trip down vacation memory lane and dug out the Slovenian scrapbook. And then we talked about that trip for a good part of the evening.
Oh, how I long for another one of these trips.
It was 103 degrees here in Kansas today. One of many, many 100 degree plus days this summer. A vacation would be so nice.
And I have one planned for next week, for me and Troy, if the small business owner gods will smile down on us and let us get paid for something in time for us to go. School starts exactly 3 weeks from today.
Fingers crossed!!!
