straight below our feet. This picture shows one of the loops. Then, as Earl put on his western movies music, we entered Monument Valley
(the site of many Westerns) and paid our entry fee for the bone jarring, teeth rattling 3 hour (leisurely in and out looking at views) ride over the gravel and dirt road thru the valley. Wandering aimlessly on their own, we saw half a dozen horses, a flock of goats, lizards, hawks circling lazily in azure skies and of course, the Indians selling their jewelry, dream catchers, rugs, etc, in the most remote areas of the valley. The scenery was awesome, almost surreal.We wandered thru the gift shop and then we were off to Page, AZ, right at Lake Powell. While moving our stuff from the car to our room, we saw our first roadrunner… sort of scrounging the edge of the units for insects or some such. They are known to eat rattlers (I’m hoping that’s not what he’s after!) This one acted like his wing
was hurt…he was sort of spazing around…maybe he felt trapped with me on his trail with my camera. They’re bigger than I thought and very hard to see.We had made good time so we took a quick nap before heading out for dinner.
I put the address into Ms Tom-Tom for an Italian restaurant and off we went. She took us deep into a residential area and announced we were at our destination. Hah! As I turned around to head back, I swear I saw ‘Soprano” on the mailbox. Turns out she took us to “south Navajo” instead of “north Navajo” – but we eventually found it and enjoyed, somewhat, our Italian dinner.
On the way back we wandered a bit at the Wal Mart across our motel, got some more water, a dark chocolate for Opal’s one a day chocolate and went back to cut some zzzzz.
SLIDE SHOW
2007 SW 10-2
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