Good Day Thomas Jefferson, our listeners.

Clay Jenkinson is on his Steinbeck inspired journey in search of America.

And we're posting his blogs on the website and his audio dispatches on the 1776 club. We're

releasing this one for everyone to hear. You can keep track of Clay's

travels by following us on Facebook or going to Jefferson Hour.com

forward slash America.

Thomas Jefferson never got to see the American West, but Clay Jenkinson is seeing the American West.

In fact, it's your search for America, Clay, and you've taken time to pull over to the side of the road and and and call in and give us a report where are you at sir?

I'm in Grand B Colorado which is near the southwestern corner of Rocky Mountain National Park.

I started in Denver and I've made my way to the source or near the source of the Colorado River.

One of my interests, as you know David is John Wesley Powell, the great Civil War hero and

Explorer, and he floated the Colorado and Green Rivers in 1869, but in 1868 he came here.

He came to the source waters of the Colorado to try to begin to understand how a river system works.

And that led him much later in his career in 1878

to propose something called the Arid Lands Report,

which was a revolutionary new template

for how Western development, particularly water development, should occur.

So I'm at the edge of Mr. Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase.

He knew eventually we'd get all the way to the Pacific but and right on the continental divide just

just slightly west of it so just outside the boundaries of the Louisiana

purchase. You said you started in Denver but that's not really correct. Let's back up

for people who don't know

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