From Moab to the Grand Canyon

We woke up early on Sunday and packed up our gear and hit the road.  Our first stop was Masa Verde, which is a national park that is home to a bunch of old rock dwellings that were inhabited by various Native American Tribe, primarily the Pueblos.  We took the Balcony House tour which is the most challenging one, and requires a climb up a 32 foot ladder on the huge cliff in a canyon.  It was pretty exciting.  The scenery was awesome.  The dwellings were really cool too, and it was really interesting to here the history of the tribes. We also looked at the Cliff Palace, but did not do the tour, as we did not have time. 

Afterwards we headed to the four corners monument, which was closed for construction.  We took a picture with the closed sign, and left.  We tried! haha. Our next stop was Monument Valley.  It was very similar to Arches and Garden of the Gods.  It was these large golden rock formations in the dessert.  It was cool.  We did not drive the hole length of the park as we did not have that much time, but we toured a little bit of it, and got some great pictures.  

After all those stops we were finally headed to our final destination, Holbrook AZ, where we would stay for the night in a Wigwam hotel.  It took forever and the drive as Billy said was as borning as TX.  It felt never ending and there was not much to look at. It was beautiful, but mostly the landscap didn't change.  The housing was also not that great to look at.  It look very poor in the areas we drove, and we also had to keep stopping for Cows and Horses near or in the road.  It was interesting.  After and extra hour we did not expect due to a time change we finally made it to the Wigwam.  It was pretty neat.  The pictures are below.  We went to Butterfield Steakhouse for dinner, which was not very good for the money, but I think the Wigwam Hotel is in cahoots with the Steakhouse cause they recommeded it. Haha.

This morning, we went to the grocery store to stock up for camping in the Grand Canyon, and hit the road again.  On our way to the Grand Canyon we stopped at the Metor Crator in Winslow, AZ.  We took a Rim Tour of the Crator and got some really neat pictures.  It was actually really cool, and Billy loved it of course.  We have just arrived at the Grand Canyon, Mathers Campground, and will be here for three nights.  Below are some highlights of the past few days.

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