Thursday October 31, Goosenecks State Park UT

Monument Valley

After the full on day yesterday have enjoyed kicking back the pace a little today. Didn’t even wake in time for sunrise in Monument Valley! This is Navajo Country and have found it interesting learning a little about them, also going into the local grocery store and you are the only non-Navajo. I forgot to mention the other day on our way back from the Grand Canyon, we called into a Navajo Trading Store and spent quite some time watching an older lady weaving a rug in the traditional method with intricate patterns that seemed to be evolving as she wove. It just fascinated me, and could see why they were so expensive, she expected her rug to take 6 months to complete!

Drove out to the Monument Valley Visitors Centre and even though the view was what we have seen so many times in photographs, the forms of the towering mesa’s are amazing.

Meandered east from the valley through a high desert plateau, through the little town of Medicine Hat and on out to the Goosenecks State Park on a high overlook of the San Juan River. We had been recommended by some other campers to come here, it is stark and arid. The river winds in four tight  horseshoes, nature at work again!

Ian built a really good campfire tonight and we were joined by a fellow camper M’lane, had a great evening chatting as she had just come back from Kodiak Island, Alaska where she spent a year as a lawyer working for a judge.

A "horseshoe" at Goosenecks...one of the many!