Flying again over the splendors of the American West today I was once again over- whelmed by the beauty of land and cloud formations, transported by the pageant of history carved by rivers large and small in deliriously varied geological surfaces... I'll let you fly through them too. Just to name the places I know, you'll see the pier at Imperial Beach (where we saw the sand castles), the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley - which, you must recall, is all that's left of a huge mesa.
