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A Study of Rock Formations, Textures and Colors – Day 1

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The first day of our trip led us through Flagstaff AZ with the beautiful juniper and pine forests, past Sunset Crater, Wupatki National Monument, and Navajo National Monument.   We stopped at those three places on the way home.   The Little Colorado River has a dramatic bridge alongside the road where we climbed around on rocks to look down into the river.   I started looking at the dry river bed with the idea of making texture plates for jewelry.   This one would be great to imbed in wet clay. Spaces were vast and sometimes the placement of the advertising made me smile! With lots of interesting cacti and wildflowers!  We wanted to get to Monument Valley and camp there for the night.   Never have I seen so many rental RV’s as I did on this trip.   All the campgrounds were full and this was early in the season!   We drove through the monument and took some side roads when all of a sudden we saw a very large arrow pointing into the ground with ‘Sleepin