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Tips4theTrip: Be nice while climbing--and other tips for travelers

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I shot the picture above last summer, looking across the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. In fact, I never did get across the river to the stairs in the photo. But the sight of all these ascending and descending people stuck with me.

You can always count on travel to teach you something -- but what? Travel is the substitute teacher who didn’t get the lesson plan, the adjunct lecturer who goes off on Pinochet, the grad assistant who trashes your poetry, then hands out cupcakes. If only you’d had a clue what was coming, right?

I’m building a gallery of guidance from new and old adventures in the West (and the rest of the world). The photos are mine. As for the attempted wit and wisdom, it’s dead serious, except for that which isn’t.

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