Thursday, April 1, 2010

Farmington NM to Monument Valley Utah


We left Farming ton at a reasonable hour after a look around and headed for Monument Valley.  The journey took us through the town of Shiprock. The landscape is dominated by the rocky formation that is Shiprock. I took more photos than were entirely necessary but it has a majestic and haunting quality to it.

 As we drove along we knew it was windy but then we "hit" the area of the dust storm.


Didn't fancy the ride this biker was getting.


We stopped along the way for a variety of photo opportunities and here are two of my fellow photographers.


The views of Monument Valley along the way!



We are staying at The View Hotel and here is part of our view from our balcony. 



One final view from the day.....



A photo of "moi" thanks to Julia!

2 comments:

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Barb said...

Wow that place in incredible! I love seeing these! The great big pieces of stone rising out of the desolate earth is so cool! I can not imagine living there like that one small habitat in the one pic. So far from everything. Could be really nice at times!

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