{"id":262,"date":"2021-09-24T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:14:21","slug":"day-thirty-monument-valley-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Day thirty, Monument Valley, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a warm, bumpy, dusty day today, as we took an open truck tour of Monument Valley with a Navajo tour company. We rattled around the canyon and valley for about 3 and a half hours, and saw some pretty amazing sights\u2026many of which you would recognize in movies; not just westerns, but also thrillers and espionage films as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t just rock we saw, but also plenty of Navajo craftspeople. It seemed that every stop included someone wanting to sell jewelry. Some of it was really nice, some not so much. No wildlife, but some sheep and some horses livened things up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the tour our group went to Gouldings, a local inn, for lunch. The inn was founded about 100 years ago as a trading post and lodge. It\u2019s changed over the years, and has added a gift shop and gas station. They also have what they claimed is the cabin John Wayne used in the movie \u201cShe Wore a Yellow Ribbon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow brings a bus tour of the neighborhood, then our last driver\u2019s meeting of the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leila exploring the monuments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just picture John Wayne on a stagecoach racing across this plain with the Navajo nation on his heels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our guide was not sure why this gentleman is wearing a duck on his head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leila and The Duke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a warm, bumpy, dusty day today, as we took an open truck tour of Monument Valley with a Navajo tour company. We rattled around the canyon and valley for about 3 and a half hours, and saw some pretty amazing sights\u2026many of which you would recognize in movies; not just westerns, but also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-park-tour-2021"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}