Earlier this day, Caroline and I boarded the Sam McGee, a dory owned and rowed by Jeffe Aronson, who will be one of our guides on an 18-day dory adventure through the Grand Canyon National Park. Two-hundred twenty-five miles of river will be plied before we take out with our lives changed. As I post this brief update, I am working through trying to write about what this experience was and meant to me. The problem is that this has been slow going. I needed about five days to write about the first day and then two days to write about our second-day wake-up to running our first real rapid at 9:00 am. At this rate, I will need approximately 110 days before I complete the story.