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In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.

On this tour, we cross the Potomac River and visit the four major monuments that reside in Arlington, VA. This tour starts at the Pentagon Metro & Bus station. From the Metro station, we’ll walk to the Pentagon Memorial. After Pentagon, we’ll visit the Air Force Memorial, we’ll walk through Arlington Cemetery then visit the Netherlands Carillon, and we’ll end at the Marine Corps Memorial, better known as the Iwo Jima Monument. Along the way, you'll hear stories about the monuments, some history of Washington, DC, and the story of Arlington Cemetery.

Welcome to Grand Canyon National Park! As you approach the Grand Canyon, you are crossing the Colorado Plateau, a 130,000 square mile bulge in the earth's surface spanning half of Utah and a good portion of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Around its edges are the upthrust Rocky Mountains, the stretched-apart Great Basin, the contorted rocks of Arizona's Transition Zone, and ancient volcanoes.