We don't drive Gondolas in your Toilet so don't Pee in our Canals

When you canoe down the Green River in Utah, you pass through a very dry country, so dry there aren't enough microorganisms in the soil to break down your, shall we say, leavings. You are strictly required to port your poo out, and to pee in the river.

When you come out of the train station in Venice and blink in the sunshine that bursts off the Grand Canal and for some reason really have to pee, the sight of that canal and your memory of the Green River will conspire in your mind. You must resist. Well, you should. The locals probably don't.

The two places defy any use of words to describe them. (Please click on pictures to get the full effect, as poor a substitute as they are for the reality.)



















To the purist (you know who you are), yes, some of these were taken at Arches NP.