Holy cow! I can't imagine how you must have felt, being blessed in the same way and by the same man who looks over our Navajo warriors in Iraq. Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes and shivers to my spine.
Last April, I went on a different journey to the Peach Springs area of the Grand Canyon, again on Reservation land, but not Navajo - I can't think of who, tho. Anyway, for the first day, after we arrived, we went to see this ungodly underground cavern - massive, just beyond imagination massive. The only way to get there is by this little elevator -- there is no other way out. Period. If the elevator breaks or the electrics go out, you're royally screwed until someone fixes that 'vater!!!
The next day we went to the floor of the Grand Canyon, to a lovely little beach area where they launch a lot of the rafts from; had a nice picnic, waded in the Colorado River when it got really hot, and then returned to our little hotel.
My trips were thru the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Division of Continuing Education (that's not what it's called now, but when I worked there it was); on both trips we had professors from UNLV as our guides - to the Grand Canyon we had a geologist who taught us about the formation of the canyon as well as the Las Vegas valley, and a botanist who told us about all the plants we were seeing. For Monument Valley, we had two geologists so that there would be one in each of the two tour trucks.
Even paying the single supplement, the trips were less than $500 each and worth every single penny.
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:22 pm (UTC)Last April, I went on a different journey to the Peach Springs area of the Grand Canyon, again on Reservation land, but not Navajo - I can't think of who, tho. Anyway, for the first day, after we arrived, we went to see this ungodly underground cavern - massive, just beyond imagination massive. The only way to get there is by this little elevator -- there is no other way out. Period. If the elevator breaks or the electrics go out, you're royally screwed until someone fixes that 'vater!!!
The next day we went to the floor of the Grand Canyon, to a lovely little beach area where they launch a lot of the rafts from; had a nice picnic, waded in the Colorado River when it got really hot, and then returned to our little hotel.
My trips were thru the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Division of Continuing Education (that's not what it's called now, but when I worked there it was); on both trips we had professors from UNLV as our guides - to the Grand Canyon we had a geologist who taught us about the formation of the canyon as well as the Las Vegas valley, and a botanist who told us about all the plants we were seeing. For Monument Valley, we had two geologists so that there would be one in each of the two tour trucks.
Even paying the single supplement, the trips were less than $500 each and worth every single penny.