{"id":1659,"date":"2023-06-29T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2024-03-17T00:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:33:15","slug":"hello-from-monument-valley-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Monument Valley, UT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello from Monument Valley, UT<\/p>\n

Drafted:\u00a0 Tuesday June 29, 2023 (First post of this travelogue)<\/p>\n

First comment, I am not sure when this travelogue blog will get posted.\u00a0 That part of my website lost database connections in early June and I have not had to time to work on it since. Update:\u00a0 the links have been fixed, but this post was lost in the inner workings for the computer {grin}.\u00a0 I have now posted it (3\/16\/2024) and backdated it to 6\/29\/2023.<\/p>\n

Second comment, this trip was planned using our truck and trailer.\u00a0 We left Evergreen Monday morning (6\/26) but quickly encountered overheating problems with the truck.\u00a0 We returned home and decided to travel in the Mazda instead.\u00a0 That caused a flurry of reservation cancellations and making of new reservations.<\/p>\n

Third comment, I don\u2019t think there is anything major with the truck, but it does give me a reason to replace all the major cooling components and upgrade the radiator.<\/p>\n

We are in Monument Valley and staying at the Goulding Lodge (link to Google Maps)<\/a><\/p>\n

{google_map}37.0081 -110.2114{\/google_map}<\/p>\n

[recall you can zoom in and out once you go to map]<\/p>\n

Now for the travelogue.\u00a0 We left Evergreen (again) on Tuesday and drove to Grand Junction where we stayed in a Holiday Inn property.\u00a0 Wednesday, we drove to Monument Valley.\u00a0 We took a favorite route via Moab on highway 128.\u00a0 This is a beautiful canyon with lots of BLM campgrounds.\u00a0 We scoped out those that would handle our size trailer.\u00a0 As a side note, this was going to be the second stop with our trailer if the plan had worked out.\u00a0 We ate a quick lunch in Moab and got out of there as quickly as we could (Moab is a real tourist trap with all kinds of off-road vehicles buzzing around town).\u00a0 We arrived in Monument Valley in the late afternoon.<\/p>\n

We have been through Monument Valley several times and are always amazed at the spectacular beauty.\u00a0 However, we have never stayed in the valley.\u00a0 We had reserved a camp spot at the KOA, but then made arrangements to stay at the Goulding Lodge.\u00a0 Since we had to make the reservations last minute, we had to reserve an apartment.\u00a0 That turned out to be great as we were basically by ourselves, away from the maddening rush.<\/p>\n

On Thursday we drove the loop in actual park.\u00a0 It was several miles of rather rough road, but fantastic beauty.<\/p>\n

Here are a few pictures.<\/p>\n

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This is our cabin in Monument Valley<\/p>\n

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That is all for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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