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| Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, AZ, where we stayed. |
My friend Susan Kean and her partner George love to travel and recently did a driving trip from Southern California to Arizona, New Mexico and the Four Corners area of Colorado and Utah. I thank her for sharing her report and wonderful photos with The Intrepid Tourist. Her post will appear in three parts.
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| Approaching Sedona, Arizona. |
The first stop on our adventure of exploring Arizona and New Mexico was Flagstaff. I was expecting a large town like Phoenix! What an interesting place! We stayed one night in a funky hotel, the Hotel Monte Vista.
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| Museum inside the old railway station in Flagstaff. |
After going to the Visitor’s Center in the old Railway Station and paying our respects to Route 66 we spent a couple of hours at the Museum of Northern Arizona before continuing to the View Hotel in the NavajoTribal Park in Monument Valley.
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| Northern Arizona Museum in Flagstaff. Pottery found in adobe dwellings. |
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| View Hotel, Navajo Tribal Park in Monument Valley. |
What a glorious place! I’m so glad we chose to stay two nights.
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| Buttes. The butte farthest to the left is called the elephant. |
We had time to wrap ourselves in the glorious desert scenery and feeling of the presence of an Almighty creator. We are trying to learn as much as possible about our country’s native peoples.
Buttes.
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| The sun literally popped up over the horizon. |
Part 2 will post next week.
