View from the visitor centre

Monuments, wind and escape

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July 5th 2008
I made a good start from Chinle this morning and headed for Monument Valley, just seems one of those places that if you are in the area you just need to go to. The drive there was through some pretty barren landscape. All this part of Arizona is made up of Indian reservations, mainly Navajo but some Hopi in the middle of it all. You can see why the early government gave this land as reservation ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more