Wed, Oct 3rd –Torrey to Monument Valley, UT

Wow, what scenery we saw today on our drive over Hwys 24, 95 and 191 to Monument Valley. We drove thru the towns of Hanksville (where we had cell phone service for a short time) to Glen Canyon where we drove over the Dirty Devil and the Colorado Rivers, to Blanding, then south to Bluff, thru Medicine Hat (there is a rock that looks like a hat there--see tomorrows pics) into The Navaho Nation Indian Reservation in Monument Valley. This reservation is in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. They call this area "the four corners" and you can stand in one spot with your hands in two different states and your feet in the other two! After Happy Hour down at LaVerne and Bob's coach, 6 couples went up to the Lodge for dinner. Chuck tried their Navajo flat bread and a HOT green chili dish that was too hot for me! I had tacos on flat bread. Antacid here I come!

Here's another picture of that gray rock that looks like elephant hide!

Here's the Colorado River from my side window in the coach. Sometimes the light from Chuck's side window casts light onto my window and that is what happened here. We've seen a lot of this river, all the way from the Rocky Mountain National Park at its head waters down to Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam.

Here's the bridge over the Colorado River down in Glen Canyon. It's hard to capture the depth of some of these canyons in a picture because here the land looks kind of flat--but it's not!



I liked this picture because it reminded be of pieces of brown Play Doh stacked on top of one another.

This is close to Medicine Hat and looks like wind blown sand, but it's hard rock! This reminds me of those bottles that you can put different colors of sand in and make sand art.

This is the San Juan River and the bridge we crossed to go into the Navajo Reservation.

And here's our first view of Monument Valley where so many movies and commercials have been filmed, such as Forest Gump and John Wayne movies and the car commercial up on top of one of the small tall rocks.

Here's our view from Goulding's Campground. These rocks encircled our campsites. We are having 5:00 o'clock Happy Hour!

Here's the Bryan's and Wittenberg's coaches and our new Discovery flag.


http://www.gouldings.com/english/index.htm Gouldings Lodge and RV Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley Monument Valley Info (great pictures here)