Day 17 Canyon De Chelly and Lake Powell

We visited our last National Historic Site today….Canyon De Chelly. It was 2 1/2 hours from Farmington and Peter did all the driving. He did very well through the Chuska Mountains where the road became very squiggly. This is another site that no one will just run into. You have to make an effort to get there but it was worth every mile. Here are just a few of the many pics we took.

Ancient Native Americans used to live in canyon caves. Peter actually managed to spot a few of the ruins.

After spending about 2 hours driving the south rim, we headed to Page, AZ where we will spend the next couple of nights. The drive was beautiful! There weren’t any pull-offs but we managed to get a few pictures.

This was actually taken from the passenger window while Peter was driving 65 MPH….not a bad shot.

Once we checked into the hotel we took a drive to Lake Powell to see what there was to do tomorrow. The sky was getting dark so we were afraid rain was coming in but it passed right by with just a few raindrops.

Dark clouds over the dessert canyons. We had just driven from this direction.
Lake Powell.
Bridge over the dam we visited 2 weeks ago.

Tomorrow we’re going to rent a kayak for a couple of hours to see a little bit of the lake. Then we have a tee time in the afternoon. We’ll only play 9 holes but the course looks beautiful so we’re excited to play.

Since the lake tour to Rainbow Bridge Monument we wanted to take only runs on Saturday and Tuesday, we decided to leave on Monday so we’ll be home a day sooner than we planned. We’ve had a great time but we’ll be glad to get home. Anyhoo….I’ll let you know how the kayaking goes. Night everyone.

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