nPostednon January 4, 2016
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Thenstatehood anniversaries just keep coming!
Thenstatehood anniversaries just keep coming! n
nJanuary 2 – Georgia
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nJanuary 3 – Alaska
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nJanuary 4 – Utah!
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nUtahnis one of my favorite states. Because it has great rocks.
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nUtahnhas a place where the rocks look like drip sand castles – but giantnsand castles you can wander among!
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nUtah has a place where you can walk up a giant slab of rock, until you get to a giant bowl created from the rock, and when you look across that bowl you can see the landscape through a delicately balanced arch cut by natural forces from – you guessed it – rock.
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Utahnhas a place where water seeps through rock and drips down from cavenwalls. It has a place where water has cut through sheer rock walls;nyou can take a hike by walking through increasingly deep water,nclosed in by increasingly close rock walls. It has a place where thenrocks seem to be carved into humpy checkered domes.
Utahnhas a place where water seeps through rock and drips down from cavenwalls. It has a place where water has cut through sheer rock walls;nyou can take a hike by walking through increasingly deep water,nclosed in by increasingly close rock walls. It has a place where thenrocks seem to be carved into humpy checkered domes.n
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Itnhas a bunch of places where the rocks are red-red-red, and othernspots where the rocks are a mix of red and gold and white. It hasnloads of places where the rocks are sculpted into crazy, whimsical,nor gorgeous shapes.
Itnhas a bunch of places where the rocks are red-red-red, and othernspots where the rocks are a mix of red and gold and white. It hasnloads of places where the rocks are sculpted into crazy, whimsical,nor gorgeous shapes.n
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nUtahnhas a place where you drive a narrow road that is like a “spine”nbetween two drop-offs of gorgeous sheer cliffs of rock.
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nIt has anplace where you drive through a loooooong tunnel, stunned by gorgeousnviews every once in a while as you come to a window in the tunnel.
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Itnhas places where a rainstorm can transform a gorgeous, dry rockscapeninto what almost looks like a water park, with chutes and waterfallsnand white-water rivers. The next day, the landscape is back to beingnbare rock, no water visible at all.
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nUtahneven has a place in which an artist arranged some rocks in a lake tonmake a more interesting landscape. I give you Robert Smithson’snSpiral Jetty:
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nInguess you can see that I really like rocks!
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nUtahnis state #45 out of 50, and it joined the U.S. on this date in 1896.
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nAlsonon this date:
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Tom Thumb Day
Tom Thumb Day
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nFairyntale editor Jacob Grimm’s birthday
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nSpaghettinDay
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nSpaghettinDay
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nWorldnBraille Day
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nWorldnBraille Day
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nFirstsnfor the fourth
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nFirstsnfor the fourth
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nBack to Normal Monday
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