EXPLORING NEW PLACES - ARIZONA & UTAH

After a great night's sleep at Walmart in Page, AZ we took the scenic drive through Navajo country, with a stop at Antelope Canyon.   There are a number of tours in that area and we went with the Taadidiin Tour run by a Navajo family.  They were extremely hospitable, friendly and don't wait for a large group to show up.  Robert our private guide went above and beyond to be sure we got great photo shots. He even took the time to show me how to take a panorama shot. The canyon is awesome even on a cloudy day.

Beautiful color variations

The sun came out just long enough
for this shot of color

Panorama shot - much taller than it appears

Intense crevases

They recommended we drive back 10 miles to check out Horseshoe Bend and said we could leave the motorhome in their parking lot.  What a great recommendation and it was free.

Didn't get a shot of the horseshoe but the river is
horseshoe shaped around the rock formation

The water was a beautiful color of blue green

Finally destination for tonight is the campground at the Monument Valley in Utah just across the Arizona border.  At 7,000 elevations on our way here we ran into a bit of sleet and snow but tomorrow promises to be sunny and I'll be able to take some pics.

Haven't seen this white stuff in a long time

Arrived for tonight's layover

Just a sample of what's in store for tomorrow

Thanks for stopping in to say hi.

GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA - ARIZONA

What a beautiful drive along U.S. 89 from Zion NP to Page, AZ.  This is all new territory for us and we're winging it as we go along.  We drove past Glen Canyon Dam and I quickly looked up the area in our National Parks book and found Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.  So we parked at a Walmart nearby, unhitched the car and drove 6 miles back to the Visitors Center.  Glad we did.  We got our park stamp for both the bridge and the recreation area.

Page is southern Utah and the 1.2 million-acre recreation area lies in the midst of the country's most rugged canyon country.  This is the Lake Powell area, the second largest man-made lake in the U.S. with a shoreline of 1,960 miles.

I'm already making plans to come back to visit this area and take the 7-hour boat tour to Rainbow Bridge National Monument to check out one of the world's largest natural bridge.

Rainbow Bridge - A picture of a picture

Beautiful rock formations and hoodoos

Glen Canyon Dam

Walked to the 3-mile round trip to the hanging gardens
in wind gusts of up to 58 miles per hour - intense

That's it for today, thanks for stopping in to say hi.