Today is kind of a travel day. We
were on the road at 8:45. Our travels
take us on US-160 westbound toward the Four Corners area. We will leave Colorado, travel 1 mile through
New Mexico and then Arizona.
We stopped at Four Corners. While the monument remains much the same as
it was nearly 50 years ago the concession has been given to the Navajo
Nation. They charge a modest $3.00 per
person and have vendor stands with Navajo and other Native American wares for
sale. The prices are more than reasonable.
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| Red Mesa |
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| Shiprock |
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| Apparently Redskins is okay with this school district. |
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| A modern hogon |
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| We traveled through Monument Valley |
We were only five miles into AZ
at Teec Nos Pos where US-160 makes a hard right turn and we spotted our first
Roadrunner. No chance for a
picture. It was gone as fast as if Wile
E. Coyote were chasing it.
We continued about 150 miles on
US-160, The Navajo Trail, until reaching AZ-98 (Indian 22) and turned north
toward Page. Just outside Page is a
power plant, the Salt River Project- Navajo Generating Station, with the
tallest smokestacks I believe I have ever seen.
They may be the three 707 footers my dad talked about being built just
after he quit building stacks.
Traveling south out of Page we
are headed to Marble Canyon. This is the
location of the Navajo Bridges. The
first completed in 1929 and the second in 1995.
Marble Canyon Lodge will be our resting place for the night.
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