I recently finished reading an interesting book that I discovered via the Travel Channel. Sunk Without a Sound, by Brad Dimmock, is a true story about a newlywed couple that decides to float the Colorado River for their honeymoon in 1928. The wife, Bessie Hyde would have been the first woman to float the whole river, But instead, they disappear, and their boat is found with all their belongings on it. Most of the book proposes theories of what may have happened to the couple.

I mentioned this book to my brother, and he brought up the story of Everett Ruess, an exporing poet in the early 1930’s who disappeared near Escalante Utah. A couple of weeks ago they thought his mystery was solved with the discovery of some human remains, but further DNA testing showed that they were not his. There is a book about Everett Ruess’ disappearance that I’m going to read: A Vagabond for Beauty by W.L. Rusho.

This new fascination I have with adventure mysteries is odd, because normally I’m very fond of resolution. These stories, by their very nature have none, but I enjoy them all the same.