Arches Park and Monument Valley

We drive, we drive and cross a lot of states! We arrive almost at 10’000km on the road since the beginning of our trip. We crossed: British Colombia, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah !! We even didn’t realize that we changed of time zone once in Utah!

Pfffouaa, even in Arches it’s still pretty hot! With more than 35°C it’s hard to hike! But when you see the arches pictures you don’t have a choice! Steven takes his backpack full of bottles of water, Rogier his crutches and there we go! You want to see that with your own eyes. After a few hikes and tired legs we had to go to the van for sleeping… Unfortunately, even at night it’s more than 25°C not easy to find the sleep and the morning at 7 the sun slaps your face: no choice we had to wake up and enjoy the landscapes.

When you have time and no idea where to drive it’s not that easy to make a decision which road to take: Right or left!?  We found the solution to make it easier; we play “heads or tails”!
“Heads” brought us to the Monument Valley!
To visit Monument Valley, it’s an unpaved road that you have to take and drive around the rocks. We were very scared, afraid our van couldn’t do it and follow the big US 4x4 trucks! The van survived, even if we took 2.5 hours to do the loop instead of 1.5 hours... As we wrote before, we have time and we enjoy even if it takes a bit longer.
“Heads” took us also through an Indian reserve. Real Navajos (native people), live still with horses, in the middle of the desert; make dream catchers which they try to sell next to the road!