Monthly Archives: June 2014

History of the Fiesta and Burn Zozobra

History of Zozobrais best described by burnzozobra.com the hyperlinked words above will take you directly to the history.

YouTube videos of the burning Zozobra show examples of years of the different hair color and dress but the same basic premiss of a toothless brainless boogie man, with no feet to stand on.  Burning him with pounds and pounds of little papers filled with people’s troubles, represents burning all bad stuff and troubles away and the chance to start fresh.

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Enjoy

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Monument Valley

A celebrity in the landscape world Monument Valley easily made our to do list.
Per Wikipedia
“Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s.  It is perhaps most famous for its use in many John Ford films, including Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956).  It has also been featured in the film Easy Rider (1969), Robert Zemeckis’ film Forrest Gump, Clint Eastwood’s film Eiger Sanction (1975), and recently the popular United Kingdom television show Doctor Who in the two episodes “The Impossible Astronaut” and “Day of the Moon”.”
It lives up to it’s name and is a monumental experience, but only if you take the 17 mile dirt road drive through the park, for it is so bumpy you can easily pretend you are Indiana Jones, or on some kind of exotic Safari.

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On our way home we drove by Mexican Hat rock

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Goodnight from Navajo country.  Love, the Owens family.

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