Sam and Leah: HOLY SHIT.........MONUMENT VALLEY!!!

Hi.

We are in Utah....just over the Utah / Arizona border. which is US state number 7 for us, only 43 more to go. We are at Monument Valley at the moment, we have been here 3 days and are leaving tomorrow.

Well we keep getting blown away by the scenery over here, and this place is no exception. Again, it is one of our favourite places. Red dirt everywhere, with scattered green shrubs everywhere. and massive coloured rock mountains that seem like they were architechtually designed.

Monument Valley is in the Navajo Nation Indian Reserve and it isnt part of the National Parks (but just as impressive), so though it is famous, it is reasonably quiet compared to other National Parks.

We entered the Valley and decided not to do a tour because you could basically do the same thing for free, and you didnt have to smell the body odour of 20 German tourists. It was a 17 mile dirt road track around all of the Monuments and it took us a few hours because the road was rough. Leah got a photo on a horse which she is pretty pleased about.

Heaps of Hollywood films have been shot out here as well, we are staying just down the road from where John Wayne used to stay when he was shooting his western films. Other movies that have been shot out here are Forrest Gump, Back to the Future 3, National Lampoons, Wild Wild West. and a plethora of old westerns. They have a really good Museum here which has heaps of stuff from all the movies as well as alot of indian cultural stuff.

We are headed for Zion National Park tomorrow which is meant to be good, but we might stop at a town called Page for a night in between to break up the drive a bit.

Driving over here is great, im really enjoying it. We have done 6530km since we left Revelstoke in Canada, of which leah has done about 30 km. haha. The everchanging scenery keeps it interesting.

We got some nice photos out here:

YEEEEEHAAAAAWWWW!!!!!