Today was mainly a travelling day although it turned out to be much better than we expected. We had to drive 240 miles north to Utah with the ultimate goal of visiting Monument Valley.

The journey was long today but very scenic. We got glimpses of Monument Valley and are excited to see it in its full glory tomorrow. The above rock formation as you can see represents a Mexican hat and the town we are staying in tonight is named after it.

We had time this evening to visit Gooseneck State Park, which is an amazing meandering canyon. We spent a long time here taking in its beauty.

On leaving Gooseneck State Park we spotted a road leading up into the mountain. It had warning signs that there were: sharp turns, steep inclines, falling rocks, unmaintaned roads and was dangerous for larger vehicles due to width restrictions. As we had not yet had any experiences getting lost on isolated roads today we thought this would be our excitement for the day. It was very scary! There were narrow gravel roads with hairpin turns and no barriers on the side, which is very un-American. On the way up Tom kept telling me that he couldn't see the side of the road and a couple of times we met another car so had to gingerly pass each other. It was great fun and when we got to the top the views were spectacular. As we've found on many days the journey is better than the destination as we turned around and began our descent as soon as we reached the top. You can watch a video above of our descent but the video has been sped up 4x so it is not as boring.