by Trisha Moses For Part 1, click here. To read about our SPLASH! tour Click Here! Today, Captain Glade turned off the engine and let us quietly float down the Colorado River. While we took in the sounds and beauty that are The Grand Canyon, it simply felt like a dream. Some took the time […]
Gay Grand Canyon
New Experiences in the Grand Canyon
By Jim Hill, September 16, 2016 I feel like Lana Turner must have felt when she was discovered while sipping Coke on Sunset Boulevard. But unlike that, I was just walking my dogs around the neighborhood when out of nowhere I was being offered the chance to host a river trip! And this wasn’t just […]
SPLASH! No Expectations, (Part 1)
by Trisha Moses To read about our SPLASH! tour Click Here! I am the only woman on a tour with ten gay men, plus our Captain and his assistant, the swamper. How will it go? Will they like me? Will they be bothered to have a female on their tour? I will have to wait […]
Poems from the Colorado River
One of our July 2017 Splash! Grand Canyon Rafting launches inspired HE traveler, David Kelly, to do a little writing. We can’t blame him, the Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful natural attractions the United States has to offer. It’s even more beautiful from the bottom, but you have to see it to really believe it. […]
Splash! An Adventure in Understanding your Place in the World (Part 3)
by Kaleb Smith, HE Travel Storyteller This is the last in a three-part series of blog posts about my adventure in the Grand Canyon. If you missed the first two, please click to Read Part 1 or Part 2 Canyon Day 5: We hiked up a side river and finished by splashing around under a waterfall. After a […]
Splash! An Adventure in Understanding your Place in the World (Part 2)
by Kaleb Smith, HE Travel Storyteller This is the second in a series of three blog posts. Read Part 1 HERE. Canyon Day 3: Today was incredible. We came to one of our first hiking areas, high up the canyon wall, called Nankoweep, the Ancient Puebloan Granary. Once we reached the site, our Captain Adam told us how the natives […]