Road Trip! Part 3

Canyon de Chelly, Chinle, AZ

Canyon de Chelly is a canyon with ruins from the indians (I'm thinking Aztec but I could be wrong). It is one of three...Mesa Verde, Mexico and Chinle. We have been to the others and so we decided to see the last of the three.

It is the only one where today they still live in the canyon.


This ruin, The White House, was the only one you could hike to without a guide and it was ONLY 3 miles round trip. So we headed down...600 feet down in 1.5 miles...whew! When we got to the ruin, we discovered you couldnt actually go to it...just view from a distance. All that work for a closer view...hmmm. At least they had bathrooms down there! :)


On the way down I had Audrey on my back and she passed out. On the way back up...well Dad had her or I wouldn't have made it back up.
Mom was having lung problems due to the cottonwoods at the bottom so I was enlisted to be her cheerleader...Keri and Dad went ahead...and mom and I......well we went from rock to rock, shade to shade...and we EVENTUALLY made it (mom got feeling better and we changed rolls) to the top many hours later.

Audrey loved being with Tia and of course collecting her rocks.





We eventually headed back to Albuquerque, NM and spent time with Grandma and Grandpa Hanchett before Audrey and I flew home to Phoenix tired and ready to see Daddy again.