I got up early to photograph the valley at dawn. There was a spectacular view of the dawn from our trailer. I sat out and drank my morning coffee and watched the sun come up, it was fabulous.
We got an early breakfast and decided to do the 17mile drive as early as possible, so that the light was better and it was not as crowded. We set off, and boy was the road bumpy! We could only go very slowly. It is an unpaved road, but with huge rocks stuck in it, often we had to pick a way on the road using the wrong side to try and find a smoother path (little luck with that though). The views are spectacular and awesome and huge and grand and mostly indescribable, as indeed the pictures will not be able to show adequately what there is to see, we sort of drove round in a daze, just trying to take it all in. We took about three hours and were back at the trailer in time for lunch. But it was worth the wait (only about 54 years in my case).
In the afternoon we relaxed, then went for a meal to Gouldings, a trading post in Monument Valley. It was where many of the film stars stayed when they were filming in Monument Valley.
John Ford directed 9 films there, many with John Wayne, including his first - Stagecoach, others included The Searchers, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. Monument Valley was also used to film The Eiger Sanction and Thelma and Louise.
We went along with some people we had met at the campground. They are all members of RV Forum.Net and they were very welcoming towards us.
The meal was so so, but the place was great.
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