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  Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
Sunday, May 30, 2010

After Flagstaff, we drove through Petrified Forest, one of the world's largest collections of petrified wood - old trees that turned to stone after millions of years in anaerobic conditions. The collection is shrinking by several tons each year because of rock theft (and yes, thieves that are caught are fined and can be imprisoned).
We went on to Canyon de Chelly, which is a huge valley on the Navajo land that contains several Puebloan ruins built into the cliffs. Th Navajo still live and farm on the valley floor.
We spent a day and a night at Canyon de Chelly then drove across the Navajo lands into New Mexico, passing by Ship Rock.

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The town of Twin Arrows	That's Twin Arrows, all of it.	The dinosaur rock shop	A whole park full of stone trees
A polished piece of petrified wood	A petrified tree	The last Route 66 marker we'll see	A Route 66 original
Canyon de Chelly	Navajo farms in the canyon	Old Puebloan cliff dwellings	Walking through the canyon walls to the bottom
The cliff dwellings as seen from the valley floor	Spider rock	Another view of the canyon	More dwellings
Finally leaving Arizona	Ship Rock - kinda resembles its namesake

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