Day 6 Monument Valley

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Well folks - I think I got my days screwed up and just found this unpublished journal.

Day 6 - May 20 Monument Valley, Four Corners, Cortez, Colorado
Leaving Mexican Hat at 9am, we deferred breakfast until we reached Kayenta, about 1 hour
away. We didn't want to take a chance on breakfast in Mexican Hat after our gormet dinner
last night.

Then around a bend, up a grade and THERE IT IS!!! Monument Valley. This is what I wanted
to see. All those cowboy movies - John Wayne, the prairie scooners, covered wagons, kids
walking alongside the wagon with their dog, men or horseback returning from a scouting
mission telling the leader the best way to go. All those scenarie os flashed through my
mind as I gazed out on Monument Valley. I looks just like the movies. Off, in the distance,
I see huge red rock spires jutting into the sky, I humm the Rawhide theme and think of
hundreds of prairie scooners trailing their cattle behind them moving through this valley.
Sometimes they would travel only 10 miles in a day and here I am moving along at a pleasant 300 miles a day.

We stop at Kayenta for a MacDonalds breakfast and climb back in our car for the 50 mile
drive to Four Corners which is located on Navahoe land. "Welcome to the Navaho Nation,"
says the sign. The admission fee is $3 per person. Here we see a round concrete circle
with a 4 inch brass surveyor's placque showing the exact location where Arizona, Utah,
Colorado and New Mexico meet. Five flags, US, the state flag, a viewing platform where you
can look down and take pictures, plus about 50 stalls where you can buy Indian jewellry,
Indian artifacts, hand made arrows, Indian flat bread (kind of like a huge doughnet) with
sugan and cinnamon sprinkled on it and about 50 porta potties. That's it. Nothing else but
hundreds of miles of flat land with the mountains in the background. Take a picture, buy a
trinket, use the porta potty, and you're done.

Back in the car, it's about one more hour to the lovely mountain town of Cortez, Colorado
with its tree lined streets, houses on large lots, kids riding their bikes right down the
middle of the street, beautiful schools with large green lawns surrounding them, and the
highway that goes right down the middle of the city - and guess what the street's name is -
Main Street.

We check into our hotel around 3pm. I take a nap (my favorite activity, next to eating -
it's a close call) while M heads to the Wall Mart Super Center for a little shopping spree.

Another wonderful day. We are happy.

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Comments

[Pat]

Hey, Day 6 Appears!
Thank goodness the Day 6 appears! Whew...hate missing chapters! I can just hear you singing 'Rawhead'....better yet, I can picture you in your cowboy hat, sitting on your horse 'Montana', riding into the sunset. Enough....on to the next exciting chapter! Hugs, Pat

[Chuck C.]

Lost (Day, that is)
Rejoice, Rejoixe, we can all breathe easier now and will certainly celebrate your finding the Day That Was Lost (tonight's Fish Feed). Keep 'Em Rollin.