Sam and Lindsey at the Put-In

The Pun-In on the Colorado

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May 28th 2006
As we got closer to the river, Diane and I were surprised at how green the river was. In all the pictures we had seen, it was always brown and that is what we expected. The green water confused me so much that for a second I thought it must be some tributary of the Colorado and not the river itself. We learned that the river is green at lower flows and brown at higher ones, and that because thi ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more