Continued

 Next I went to Bryce Canyon (not officially a canyon because it has no river) but saw many hoodoos--the name given to the rock statues formed by the wind and rains. Then Zion Canyon, with several rode tunnels and very many hairpin turns and more elevation. As some of you have learned, I have tiredness, weakness, and brain fog from the altitude, but surviving well. 

By a happy accident I then found a boron mine--which is another story in itself for later.

Then on to Bishop California, where i  was able to go to a high school rodeo--just like the adult ones except the steers and broncos did not seem so mean. One part of me feels this is another way to see animals as slaves, bust since it is in my family (Cousin Earl Blevins was a steer wrestler snd our family went every year to the rodeo in Madison Square Garden to watch Earl break a few more bones and hopefully ear big money. Back in Wheatland Wyoming where Earl and Joan and Anne and Ned had a cattle ranch, (Ned also worked in the post office), and Earl created and patented the Blevins Stirrup Buckle--still being manufactured by Kevin Bryant in Wheatland, and sold all over the country.