Lee's Landing, Arizona to Kayenta, Navajo Nation

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Lee's Crossing, Paria River canyon - Kayenta, Arizona March 21
It was a nice day the 20th but early in the morning of the 21 the wind started gusting hard and cold. It was blowing so strongly that it was rocking my truck. When it came morning the wind was still blowing too hard to enjoy staying another day so I headed out and got a large coffee at the Marble canyon store and headed East over the Colorado River canyon and into the Navajo Nation. The wind was blowing behind me and so it was good going through the valley but then as usual I started the usual climb up and over the pass. Once over the pass the wind immediately started blowing in my face and stirring up the dust. I decended into a dust storm with a fierce headwind and every mile a struggle. I finally made it to the intersection with 160 and headed North with the wind at an angle. Still in a dust storm I decided to stop at the next town and finally I got to a little Navajo town called Kayenta. It is at the entrance to the Monument Valley and so I got a room and got off the road hoping for better weather tomorrow to check out the Monument Valley. Can't see it in a dust storm, that's for sure. After a while it started snowing but I didn't see any accumulation. Hopefully tomorrow things will clear up so I can tour the Monument Valley. All the motels here in Kayenta are high dollar so I can't hole up here for long.

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Photos

Navajo Nation
The other side of the bridge is the Navajo Nation

SuperWalmart
The SuperWalmart at Page had several RV's so apparantly it allows overnight parking

Dust storm
A fierce wind and dust storm made driving very difficult.

Comments

[laura ,joe ,&justin]

western channel
these must be the western sites ,this look like a lot of hard work making have fun