Friday, September 10: After driving the north rim of Canyon de Chelly we decided to spend the night at Navajo National Monument. This is a small, but beautiful park. We found a campsite with a overlooking the valley.





There were a couple of short hikes from the visitors center. One hike went down a small canyon and when we looked up to the cliff edge, we realized the buzzards were watching...






While we were down in this canyon, a young man came bounding along. As we talked with him we learned that he was from Italy, traveling the three Americas for a year on a Vespa! He had already traveled for three months, starting out in New York, headed to Alaska, had been to the Burning Man in Nevada, and eventually would up at the tip of South America. All on a Vespa! I thought we were roughing it in the Beast.




That night we had Ilario Lavarra (what a great name) over for dinner and wine...










and had the prettiest sunset of our trip.