Good Evening All. It has been about 3 months since my last blog post. I hope ALL are doing well. As you may know, Karla and I traveled back to Ohio for our quarterly medical visits. We are humbled by and grateful for the additional time God has given us.......so no time to waste. After flying back to Sedona to close-up the house and stage RVMakes3 for our next adventure, we departed on Tuesday for Canyon de Chelly in north east Arizona. Our Sedona neighbors, Barb and Jerry, joined us for this leg of the trip. It is always a pleasure to get time with them. Following Canyon de Chelly, they traveled back to Sedona for a couple more weeks then will departing for Eagle Lake, WI for the summer.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument, which is within the Navajo Reservation, comprises several canyons that include Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto. At the canyons' mouth near Chinle, the rock walls are only 30 feet high. Deeper in the canyons the walls rise dramatically until they stand over 1000 feet above the canyon floor. Native Americans have lived in these canyons for nearly 5,000 years. About 700 years ago most people moved away, but a few remained in the canyons. Finally, about 1700 AD, the Navajo arrived building homes and adding their own designs to the ancient gallery walls. .
We hired a Navajo guide to take us several miles into the canyons. We viewed many of the multistoried cliff dwelling villages still (somewhat) in tact and pictographs and petroglyphs, some thousands of years old, throughout the canyons. After a long afternoon exploring the canyons, Karla and I retreated to RVMakes3 for the night. On Thursday, we ventured to Mesa Verde National Park. Please stay tuned for that blog update.
We look forward to seeing each and everyone of you soon. And as always, (we are) coming to a driveway near you. Take care!
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