It's been a couple of days full of incredible desert rock formations, starting with Shiprock in New Mexico and ending with the red rock canyons of Sedona Arizona. Not to mention Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon. It has been amazing and beautiful and in between times both boring and frightening. The boring part was along the huge Navajo Nation, which stretched for hundreds of miles across the top of New Mexico and Arizona. It's very flat so you can see the road for at least 30 miles ahead of you disappearing into the distance, and something about that makes the drive seem very long. Every so often there are stunning rock forms and occasionally some pretty horses, interspersed with depressing shanties. The frightening part was the canyon that descended from Flagstaff into Sedona. We could look down from one switchback to see cars on another one about a hundred feet below! The Grand Canyon was, well--big. It was an experience to see it and we're glad we went but by the time we got there the sky had clouded over so it was kind of misty and the colours were very muted. We spent the night at a campsite near the south rim and woke up to snow. So we scooted down to Flagstaff and then into this gorgeous red rock canyon area near Sedona. These formations are the most beautiful we've seen yet. But I have to say that after all that geological viewing it's nice to see some green leafy trees here in Sedona. I'm posting this from the Big O Tire store where we're getting a slow leak fixed. Here are some of the rock forms we've seen.
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