Tuesday, the 10th, we went from Camp Verde to Cameron,
Arizona ( 100 miles/ 160 km).
We are staying at the Cameron Trading Post, which is in the Navajo Nation (indianerreservat).
And we lost absolutely all connection to the rest of the world. No telephone connection. No 4G,
No Wi-Fi and no TV. Nothing!!
Once in a while we are able to get an occasional mail off or update the blog, when we are out driving
and all of a sudden have a bit of 4G or Wi-Fi at a store.
Wednesday, we went sightseeing. On our way we passed over
the Little Colorado River.We are staying at the Cameron Trading Post, which is in the Navajo Nation (indianerreservat).
And we lost absolutely all connection to the rest of the world. No telephone connection. No 4G,
No Wi-Fi and no TV. Nothing!!
Once in a while we are able to get an occasional mail off or update the blog, when we are out driving
and all of a sudden have a bit of 4G or Wi-Fi at a store.
We have crossed so many rivers the last week or so, and they all look like this. Dry as the Sahara Desert.
Hard to imagine that they will be running full before the end of the summer.
We drove along the edge of the Painted Desert. There is no
question about where that name comes from. The cliffs are striped in many
different colors. It was hard to capture with a camera, but we got a few
pictures, that show the beauty.
We went to The Horseshoe Bend. A well visited sight near
Page, Arizona.
The Colorado river (this time the big one) has over time carved its way around a cliff in the shape of a horseshoe. I (JJ) did not enjoy it at all. It was very pretty, but seeing people, and unattended kids, go so close to the edge of a 1000 foot (300 meter) drop, just made me feel bad (I do have a problem with heights). We got the pictures and left. At the next place I asked one of the guides if he knew if anybody ever had fallen down at The Horseshoe Bend. He said it happens every or every other year. Most often kids.
The Colorado river (this time the big one) has over time carved its way around a cliff in the shape of a horseshoe. I (JJ) did not enjoy it at all. It was very pretty, but seeing people, and unattended kids, go so close to the edge of a 1000 foot (300 meter) drop, just made me feel bad (I do have a problem with heights). We got the pictures and left. At the next place I asked one of the guides if he knew if anybody ever had fallen down at The Horseshoe Bend. He said it happens every or every other year. Most often kids.
We went there on the recommendation of Anita and Henrik (JJ’s sister and husband), who were here last year.
And we were not disappointed.
The canyon was carved out of sandstone over thousands of
years of flash flooding. It is incredible, that water can do something like
this. We were amazed and awed at the beauty. Not like anything we have ever
seen before. And…this was even worse than “fall colors”. Just when we thought
we had seen the view we turned a corner and there was another one, even
more impressive. We took a record 700 pictures today!
Written by JJ and Mary
Incredible beautiful. And then I mean the view off the cliffs and the girl in front of it. :-)
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