Category: Inspiration
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Ear of the wind
Ear of the wind When the wind blows in Monument Valley, the fine sand whirls, stinging your eyes, coating the inside of your ears and mouth. Tourists with gritty teeth who are sight seeing in open vehicles with no protection from the wind resort to tying bandannas to cover their mouths. They look like “baddies”…
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A room with a view and a memory
In memory of the one and only Charlie, who travelled and experienced far more than many able bodied men. It’s ironic that we happen to have the wheelchair friendly room at the View Hotel, Monument Valley on your birthday. You would have loved this place with its wide open spaces, constantly changing colours and dramatic…
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A venerable pine
Bristlecone Pine I fell in love with the silvery smooth twisted trunks of this Bristlecone Pine. The tree stood close to edge literally, at the canyon rim near Spectra Point in the Cedar Breaks National Monument, and just above 10,000 feet, the uppermost altitude at which the pine grows. In North America there are Bristlecone…