Next stop Monument Valley just a few hours from Arches.
It’s a bit of an odd place really, the rocks are very similar to what we had already seen in Arches but far more eroded so you are left with isolated towers of rocks rather than interconnecting rock ridges and hills.
You don’t need to enter the Indian Reserve as you can see the iconic rock formations from the highway but we wanted a closer look.
Now this would have been the perfect time to have a 4×4 as the lady at the entrance looked a little doubtful that our Ford Fusion would cope with the rough unpaved road, and she was right!
Matt was my trusty copilot and he did a fantastic job at keeping me calm and not panicking as I navigated the huge pot holes…
I have to admit that on one awful bit of steep downhill road I managed to scrape the bottom of car in a pot hole not meant for anything other than monster trucks, but no major damage was done, phew!
I sadly had to come back that way and I was dreading it. The rock formations are pretty impressive when you’re closer and definitely worth the horrid road we had to drive along.
On the way back along the road we managed to find a mini diversion to the pot holes so I didn’t beat up the car again 🙂
