Tuesday 10/17/00
Day Eight
Here we are again. I am so glad to hear from you
all. It makes this all worth while each night. I feal like a reporter or a
traveling journalist. But it is nice to share our trip with you all. We have
heard form most of you at least once except for our own kids. They apparently
are all mad at us for spending there inheritance.
Well you would never guess what we did today. We went to see some more rocks.
If any of you read NationalGeograpyic you may have seen the artical about 2
mouths ago about Antelope Canyon. This is a slot canyon about 1/4 mile long and 120ft high. Their is no place else on this planet like it.
At the entrance of Attelope Canyon
If your here at the right time of day and the right
time of year
Light beams will shine down through the small crack
at the top.
This Canyon is located on the Navajo Reservation
and you have to have a guide take you through
but is well worth the trip.
In some places it is less than 4ft wide. Ok yes I
was able to squeeze through.
It is not easy to capture it on film because of the
low light.
The place is full of people with very expensive
cameras.
After our canyon toure we went to a Navajo Village
to sing and
dance with the indians. They invided us to eat
with them and I new
If we didn't we might insalt them.We were served
Navajo tee made
with some weed from the desert. That was the good
part. Lamb stew,
Fried bread with beans and a bunch of other stuff
on it. They
were building a fire across from us so I new that
if I didn't eat up
I could be toast. They new even I would tast better
than that stuff.
It was very interresting to talk to them and to see
their side of life and how it is changing.
There are over 250,000 on this reservation many
still today with no electic or running water.
Well It looks like tomorrow we will be heading
north to Moab, Utah just outside Arches
National Park and Canyonland National
Park.
Keep the email coming we enjoy your
comments.
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