Saturday, May 19, 2007
Click here to see Set 7 of our Road Trip 2007 photo gallery.
Apparently the pace of living in southern Utah is retardedly slow. We went to McDonald’s for breakfast this morning and it took more than 15 minutes to get our food. I don’t have the patience for that. I expect to spend more time eating my McDonald’s than I do waiting for it.
On the way towards our next destination, Albuquerque, NM, we had two stops we wanted to make in the Indian (feather not dot) reservation. Both are Navajo Tribal Parks: Monument Valley and Four Corners Monument.
They charge less than the national parks – five or three dollars per person versus 25 dollars per car. But I guess because the Indian (feather not dot) parks were smaller and less polished than the national parks, Daniel failed to see the justification for charging any money at all. The whole, “you can do what you want with private land” thing didn’t seem to assuage his dissatisfaction.
Monument Valley is pretty cool. I’m sure you’ve seen pictures and video of it in feature length films such as Back to the Future Part III, and in Ford commercials. It’s the expanse of flat desert that has these gargantuan rock formations shooting up out of the landscape. It’s pretty impressive to see. I’d really like to stand on the top of one of them like they did in The Amazing Race. But alas, such privilege is reserved for huge television networks and Robert Zemeckis.
Four corners was fun, if not all that exciting. Basically it’s an opportunity for people to take pictures of their crappy kids sprawled across four states and for the locals to try and sell “Traditional Navajo Tacos.” We grabbed our photos in between a pack of Germans and an strung out mother trying to coral four or five rowdy midgets together while her husband talked to an associate on his Bluetooth headset about how relaxing his vacation was so far. “I’m in Arizona, I mean Utah, but now Colorado. Hah, I’m just at Four Corners…” Putz.
Mexican Hat, Utah – population: You.
