AZ Invasion I - Day 5

1 Ken and Bob listening to our guide Daniel explaining the pictographs and petroglyphics.	2 Daniel on his "soap box" to explain the markings on the canyon wall	3 The petroglyphs	4 A reflective pool nearby
5 Our first of many ruins	6 Lucky and Gloria listening to Daniel	7 Another set of ruins	8 Zooming out
9 Lucky, Anni, Daniel, Will and Gloria at some more ruins	10 Will under Martini Rock - it has a big hang over ;-)	11 W/o Will	12 Looking the other way
13	14 The whole gang looking out from under Martini Rock	15 Pictographs	16
17	18	19 Fortress Rock where the Navajo tried to escape and hide from the cavalry and Kit Carson.	20 The poles you see are ladders (logs with notches cut in them) on the steep slopes of Fortress Rock that were climbed by the Navajo to escape from the cavalry and Kit Carson.
21 Gloria took this picture of Antelope ruins	22 Ruins converted into a summer residence for a Navajo	23 Mummy Cave Ruins where we ate lunch and turned around.	24
25 On the way back through the canyon we stopped at the home of a Navajo weaver. Here we are in her one room home which she uses mainly in the summer.	26 She raises her own sheep and processes the wool. Here she cards the wool to get all the fibers aligned.	27 Anni got this picture of her "spinning" the woolen fibres into yarn for her rugs/blankets	28 Gloria and Jerry admire the skeins of yarn she has made and will dye.
29 She shows us her loom. It is made from a metal gate.	30 Now she weaves.	31 Anni got this picture of some of the weaver's small rugs. The one on her loom in the previous picture, although only partially completed, had been sold for $800.	32 Gloria and the weaver outside her one room home.
33 Her goats and sheep were in a nearby small field grazing. Some had gone up on this sloping rock to sample the growth up there.	34 At our celebratory dinner in the Turquoise Room of the La Posada Hotel in Winslow, AZ, we toasted a good trip. We would return to Mesa and Tucson the next day.	35 Gloria ordered the stuffed squash blossoms for an appetizer.	36 Many of us had the Turquoise Room's signature soup of bean soup on one side of the bowl and corn chowder on the other. The flavors were as good as the presentation.
37 Next morning before we headed back to civilization in Mesa, we ran down the road trying to loosen our load and ended up at the "Standin' on the Corner Park" in Winslow, Arizona. It was such a fine sight to see. And there was a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at us (see the reflection in the window). Made us want to write a song about the occasion. But instead, we just decided to "Take it easy." Now, we may lose and we may win though we may never be here again. You've got to be an Eagles' fan to understand.