From The Grand to Corona
13 boaters launched down the Grand Canyon in February 2020 for a 25 day journey. They emerged from the canyon on March 14 to the corona virus pandemic. This is a story about moving from bliss to a TP shortage in the course of one day.
The River Radius Podcast · One Chain, Mason Thomas, Tyler Whitcomb photography, Josh Munson, Jon Romeo, Zach Edler
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Show Notes
While spending 25 days intentionally away from the world of technology and news and globalization, a group of friends navigated the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon building friendships, exploring the canyons, resetting their life trajectory. In that 25 day period, a virus that started at a market in inland China has caught rides in cars, on planes and trains, and has moved to 6 continents, killing people, maxing out health care systems, scaring financial markets, causing rigid governmental responses, and in many places it is ignored as nothing big. In one moment these friends are having moments of reflection and joy, and then moments of confusion, then they are welcomed back to their new paradigm. Two members of the trip tell the story with humor and heartfelt observation. They went into the canyon to take a break, and they come out of the canyon to concerns about family, uncertainty with personal employment, and wondering why there is a toilet paper shortage.
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