After our wonderful stay in Oak Creek, we loaded up.....
Picked up our favorite Uncle Adam....
And headed to 4 corners where the boys were amazed by the 4 states meeting in one place....together.....
And in separate states!
We also paid respect to the Navajo Code Talkers - what an amazing story.....
Awesome displays and tributes.....Dylan especially was enthralled.....
And so humbling to hear how successful they were and so grateful for their contributions....
We then arrived at the beautiful Anamis River in Durango.....
Our site was small in comparison, yet beautiful....
It was great to have The Addie with us and enjoying the outdoors.....
And we hiked to Baker bridge where Butch Cassidy and Sundance made their famous leap....
We spent a little time in Durango looking around.....
And of all things in the shops and galleries were the peaceful Tibetan Monks tour
doing their prayer chalk artistry.....very House of Cards....very mesmorizing!
While the boys were ooooing and awwwwwing in the fishing gear stores I popped into the Antique store and found these treasurers - 50 percent off! Love Vintage Christmas stuff....
We all took turns cooking dinner....Dylan amazed us with his Lemon Chicken Pepper....
This boys loves all things nature and all things cooking.....
It was delish......
Not to be outdone little brother Brody stepped it up by making us HoBo packets.....
Equally delicious and he was quite proud of his efforts....
And those berries we picked.....
Ended up in some yummy pancakes for one of our breakfasts.....
Brody discovered lots of driftwood for his walking stick project.....
And we sat around the camp fire for hours, eating.....
And talking and just hanging out.....hours passed before we knew it.....
On the way back to Flagstaff we stopped at the Dinosaur Tracks!
It was so random and fun....just a wide spot in the road with native Americans sitting around selling their jewelry stands and asking for donations to show you the ruins.....
They carried bottles of water and poured it on the tracks to highlight the tracks....mom and baby below....
And petrified dinosaur eggs!
We found lots of blood stones that have healing powers.....
And searched for hidden treasurers all over the grounds.....someday it will be all locked up and no one can touch anything and all commercialized....so happy they could see it up close and so free and fun.....I used to go to Montezuma Castle in AZ and it was wide open for us to crawl around in and free and no guards or commercialism....such a great memory....
And soon we were back in Flagstaff and dropping off The Addie so he could head back to Phoenix.....and we decided to go back to stay at our little oasis at Oak Creek for more creek time...
More staring at beauty time....
More catching tadpoles, crawfish and minnow time...
More mashing berries.....
And staining walking stick time.....
3 of 18 and yes, he did all 18.....
So now our trip is just a memory in our travel diaries....
And we dream about our next getaway!!!!
