Road Trip: Day 2

Today was a long one.

We drove out of Sedona after a quick stop at Starbucks, on our way to Four Corners monument.  

When we got there we paid $3/person just to drive up to a concrete circle in the middle of the desert where supposedly all four states meet.  (...grrrr...)  We unpacked our cooler and made some sandwiches as we all sweated under a small covered picnic table.  The kids were not impressed.  And though I almost lost my potato chips when I visited their restroom facilities, I did get the picture Wade wanted.

When Wade was a teenager his parents had taken him and his brothers there, but he was too cool at the time to smile for a picture, so he wanted to make it up to them with a new picture, one with an older, more mature, *smiling* Wade.

Here it is.

He didn't realize the circle was made of metal and he was actually in some pain in this picture as his fingertips burned on the scorching surface.  But it was all worth it.

The majority of the population in this region is Native American, and they in fact administer the Four Corners Monument, so there are several booths set up around the monument, which, by the way, is in the middle of the desert with literally nothing else around it, selling Indian jewelry and fry bread and such things.  But after we had coughed up the $3/person I wasn't enticed by any of it, and we left with just our pictures.

Next stop:  Pueblo, Colorado.