Over Lake Powell:
We landed at Cal Black Memorial Airport (U96) for gas. It is a nice quiet airport in the middle of nowhere. The guy working there was very friendly. We were the only airplane at the airport. The guy there recommended the restaurant in Monument Valley, and since we were getting hungry, we decided to go. We called for permission to land and were told to come on over.
On the way to Monument Valley:
Monument Valley Airport is privately owned by a company which runs a lodge, campground and restaurant. It looks like they do aerial tours as well, since when we pulled up there was a large fleet of Caravans and Twin Otters there. It is a very neat airport - one end of the runway ends just short of a large cliff face. As we pulled up in the tie down area in Monument Valley, a van pulled up to take us to the restaurant just up the hill from the airport. We had a good lunch there with amazing views of Monument Valley. As we ate, we saw the entire fleet of airplanes taking off. One Twin Otter returned to pick up a bus load of tourists as we were finishing up lunch. We walked back to the airport and took off for a tour of Monument Valley.
Monument Valley:
After Monument Valley, we headed off towards Four Corners, and flew through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah in about a minute! We then headed off towards Aztec, New Mexico (N19). The airport is located on top of a mesa. The man working there drove us down to a motel in town, less than a mile from the airport at the bottom of the mesa. We'll spend the night here and hopefully start seriously covering some ground in the morning.
Four Corners:
Is four corners in the right place now? For a long time it was actual in the wrong place.
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