Day Twelve...9th November 2024

We woke up at Monument Valley at 6.45 am, in time for the sunrise.

We had a beautiful stray visitor just basking in the early morning sun outside our cabin.

We checked out at 10 am and started the 4 hour 40 minute drive to St George, Utah.

We had 1/2 tank of full and was going to fill up in Kayenta but the filling station was on the opposite side of the road so we decided to carry on to the next one.

We travelled for over an hour and the low fuel light came on, so we were getting a little anxious.

We finally came across a shell garage at Shonto Arizona and filled up.

Then we continuned on our way to Paige, Az.

I spotted a gift shop that sold jerky, Darren is a huge fan of any kind of jerky, so when I saw they sold alligator, I just had to go in and get some for him. But it was way too expensive, over $30 AUS for a tiny amount.

We carried on to The Glen Canyon Dam overlook where we climbed down sandy steps and rocks to see a great view of the Dam.

The Glen Canyon Dam holds back the waters of the Colorado river.

We set off again and stopped at the bridge we had seen from the view, and walked across it to the Carl Hayden visitor centre which tells you all about the Dam.

Outside the visitor centre.

We walked back to the car on the opposite side of the bridge.

We hopped back in the car and drove another 5 minutes to The Powell Lake lookout.

We the drove for about 2 hours, crossing back into Utah and stopped at the side of the road in a little place called Kanab where we had our lunch.

We carried on our journey for another 1 1/2 hours to St George, Utah and checked into The Red Lion Hotel & conference centre.

After we dropped our luggage off in the room, we headed out shopping.

We went to Walmart to get wine but they only sold beer, so we had to go to a liquor store, Scott was asked to produce his passport before we could buy any alcohol!. So many rules and regulations in Utah. St George is very big, busy and spread out, wouldn't go back again. We went back to the hotel to have tea before settling down for the evening.

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