stage 3: the middle of Arizona

After the Grand Canyon, we took the long way (the only way) up and around, almost all the way back up to Utah to get around that big-freakin' canyon and across the river:






We took all day to make a six-hour drive to Phoenix, because there were just so many cool natural and Native American sites to see on the way. One place we stopped on the Navajo Reservation there were dinosaur tracks in the red rock:




Juma was in heaven. We also stopped at a couple sites with 1000 year-old ruins from Native American populations who thrived in this desert for centuries: