From there, you can search for orange-throated hummingbirds in Water Canyon or follow the grooves left by countless footsteps over the millennia on the rocky hillsides of Cherry Canyon, where purple sage blooms, odd-looking succulents cling to boulders and moss hangs languidly from toyon trees.
In places, the marble floor has been worn down by countless footsteps.
Images and scenes are swift and fierce: bandaged men carried into mosques, boys cursing and hurling stones, barbed wire, barrels, tanks, palm trees aflame, bullet wisps, chanted slogans, the dead dragged to sidewalks and countless footsteps echoing down boulevards and alleys.
Climbing the ancient heavy stone staircase in the footsteps of countless generations of visitors was exciting in itself, but the sheer size of the arena takes away what breath has not already been knocked out of you by the climb.
Mr. Mainella has been plying his trade here in Rome since 1955, when he arrived from his native Molise region, following in the footsteps of countless thousands of rural Italians escaping postwar poverty and lured by the opportunities held out by the nation's capital.
You could make another iPhone app, sure — or you could follow in the footsteps of countless mimes, jugglers, dudes-painted-to-look-like-robots and breakdancers before you, and turn to the streets.
Following loosely in the footsteps of Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne Barr, and countless others, Birbiglia pulled from what he knew best in his 2012 film to play a comic who, like himself, suffers a severe sleepwalking disorder.
Thanks to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash, punk rock established itself as a template for youth rebellion, and countless bands have followed in their footsteps, sometimes so closely that the concept of creativity doesn't enter the picture.
This electro movement was an integral building block in the development of major acts such as the Beastie Boys, Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, and countless others, all who followed the footsteps of Afrika Bambaataa's hip-hop inspired electronic music.
The Schwarenbach was built in 1742 as a customs house, but today's hikers tread not just in the footsteps of muleteers but of countless writers and artists - Mark Twain, Jules Verne and Picasso among them, who stayed at the inn, beneath the peaks of the Wildstrubel and the Daubenhorn.
Those groups paved the way for countless other groups to follow in their footsteps to possibly even become better.
