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Eighteen days, eleven parks

Day 9
🇺🇸 Monument Valley
Saturday, 13 SeptemberRainUSD 262≈ CHF 2102 updates
12:30

Monument Valley in the wrong light

Arrived at midday, when the buttes are flat and grey and look like a postcard left in a window. Waited six hours and got the other version.

This is Navajo land, not a national park, and it is run entirely differently — better signposted about what you may not photograph.

21:15

The six hours were worth it

The light came back at about six and the place stopped looking like a postcard and started looking like the reason anybody drives out here at all.

Writing this from a plastic chair outside the room. Nothing photographable in the dark, so this one is only words.

How was this day?