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Location Date Tucson 1489190400 Florence 1488758400 Second Mesa 1488672000 Oljato-Monument Valley 1488585600 Kayenta
1488412800 Williams 1488326400 Page 1488240000 Sedona 1488153600 Marana 1487462400
We arrived at Kayenta about 3.30 and went straight to a Burger King where they had a museum about the code breakers native Americans who were trained in the Second World War to help in the fight against the Japanese using a special language the Japanese couldn't understand. There were also two examples of Hogans houses used by the navajo made of wooded beams and mud dome shaped. We had coffee and milkshakes and the boys had burgers and then made our way to our hotel for the next two nights. It was basic but very clean and cosy nice people and a jolly good breakfast. We were a bit dismayed at first because there was a team of men tarmacing the parking space in front of the hotel when we arrived (Nick and John said they weren't as good as Coppard!!) It all turned out well in the end. We had dinner together in Claire and John's room using their microwave to cook it washed down by wine and beer and listening to country music on Nicks iPad. We all went to bed happy and full up ready for tomorrow's great adventure riding horses in Monument Valley. Feeling a bit apprehensive.......
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David Tester In answer to your earlier blog, I’m amazed and slightly disappointed, after all your training to be cowboys and girls you decide to stuff yourselves in a car for you trip to Sedona, I was looking forward to your account of galloping down there on horseback. Think you missed a great opportunity, imagine how Pepery and Salty would have enjoyed it, you could have approached a local rancher and offered to drove his steers down there for him. Imagine the thrill of herding them across the prairie, I’ve been watching Raw Hide and it looks quite easy, all you basically need is to learn to crack a whip, use a lasso and shriek YE HA, though you should leave the lassoing to the fellas, those steers are as strong as a small donkey with a leg missing. Just think what you missed out on, you could have set up camp in the evening lit a fire with a fire lighter you cadged fro those indians, cooked bacon and beans then settled down for the night on your blanket and watched the amazing starry night sky as you drifted of to sleep with the sound of the crackling dying embers of your fire, of course the boys would have to take turns to be on guard in case of rustlers. In the morning you could set of with your herd across the wide open range and if you came across one, galloped into town ye ha’ing, tied up the nags outside the saloon,strode through swinging doors, minced up the bar shouting barman pour me a J2O one for my friends and quick about it.Yes, you missed out on a great adventure, probably would have been the highlight of the holiday. I will send next message soon, I'm a little bit down in the dumps, Penny bless her heart had been a bit awkward with me, you know bossy like, she probably doesn't mean to but it's a bit upsetting. must go now telling me to go to bed.