dear diary,to meet the movie stars of the desert we, traveled on to monument valley. in the middle of the arizona red desert stand these mesas and buttes. when you see them for real, you realize quickly that you already have seen them million times in ads, films etc. ok, this last sentence i stole from our guidebook. but it really felt like that. “the little one on the left, remember that one?!”
i felt that we should take the dirt road to see more fame in the middle of the navajo reservation run by native american indians, but eszter convinced me that the brutal route would probably be too much for a 1997 nissan family sedan. so, to her greatest joy, we took a short hike in the blistering heat. this took us very close to a towering desert celebrity.
as indicated above, we wanted to skip the gravel roads thinking that it would have lethal impact on our car. but thanks to our map, this part was still ahead of us. expecting that moki dugway was paved, we fearlessly departed monument valley but encountered a brutal serpentine climbing 2K feet to a cliff overlooking valley of the gods. no comment, check out the photo.
en route to moab, utah, we passed the gigantic wilson arch that dominates the plains in the eastern part of the state. little did we know then: next day we would see dozens of the same formations.
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