We woke up in Albuquerque to another beautiful day weather-wise, we have been truly lucky with the amazing weather the whole trip. This is the place that trip advisor told us had the best mexican breakfast, so we packed up and left the hotel to head for breakfast before making our way to Monument Valley. A couple of minutes after we left the hotel Amy and Sam realised that Sam's phone had been left behind, so a bit of a detour to go back and get it before we speed on to get breakfast. The restaurant was not in a touristy spot, quite far off the beaten track, so looked a bit of a dump from the outside. However the inside was nice, and the food was delicious.
After our cheesy mexican breakfast we headed north towards our next destination, the Four Corners monument, the only place in the US where four states touch borders. This leg of the journey was not on the busy interstate so I had another go at driving, the roads were straight and boring, but not busy which was good. We stopped at a little nothing town called Shiprock for lunch and tried to find something decent to eat, we ended up going to McDonalds, it was surprising that this was our first time at McDonalds in America, but I guess there was a lot of fast food to choose from. Shiprock's name was derived from a big rock near the town that looked like a ship. We could see it from the town in the distance, and we thought it was worth driving out to it to get some photos close up. We read that it's a sacred rock among the native people in the area, and no climbing it allowed. After a team photo with the shiprock we continued our journey to Four corners.
We arrived at Four corners in mid afternoon and there wasn't really a lot of people there. The monument is surrounded by small kiosks where local people sell their trinkets to the tourists. Amy and I thought there might be something worthwhile to buy as a souvenir but sadly there wasn't, it was all just a heap of junk. We had photos of our feet standing in all four states and had a look at some of the plaques around that described the history of the state borders moving to where they touch today. We were just about to leave and I thought I should use the toilet, this was a little way away from the monument and the kiosks and just as I was walking down the short hill a wave of stench hit me. It was disgusting, almost gag worthy, I quickly turned around to go back to the car, I didn't need to go that badly. The toilets were obviously badly maintained, long drops that were letting off a horrendous smell of human excrement.
We had booked accommodation in a small town called Mexican Hat, when I say small, I mean normally there are three hotels open in peak season but at the time we were there we were booked into the only hotel open. It was quite dark by the time we arrived and the only place where we could eat was at the diner attached to our accommodation. The menu was not extensive and the service was a bit slow as the poor man serving us was doing it all himself. We went to bed pretty early as we were spending the whole day at monument valley the next day.
After our cheesy mexican breakfast we headed north towards our next destination, the Four Corners monument, the only place in the US where four states touch borders. This leg of the journey was not on the busy interstate so I had another go at driving, the roads were straight and boring, but not busy which was good. We stopped at a little nothing town called Shiprock for lunch and tried to find something decent to eat, we ended up going to McDonalds, it was surprising that this was our first time at McDonalds in America, but I guess there was a lot of fast food to choose from. Shiprock's name was derived from a big rock near the town that looked like a ship. We could see it from the town in the distance, and we thought it was worth driving out to it to get some photos close up. We read that it's a sacred rock among the native people in the area, and no climbing it allowed. After a team photo with the shiprock we continued our journey to Four corners. 
We arrived at Four corners in mid afternoon and there wasn't really a lot of people there. The monument is surrounded by small kiosks where local people sell their trinkets to the tourists. Amy and I thought there might be something worthwhile to buy as a souvenir but sadly there wasn't, it was all just a heap of junk. We had photos of our feet standing in all four states and had a look at some of the plaques around that described the history of the state borders moving to where they touch today. We were just about to leave and I thought I should use the toilet, this was a little way away from the monument and the kiosks and just as I was walking down the short hill a wave of stench hit me. It was disgusting, almost gag worthy, I quickly turned around to go back to the car, I didn't need to go that badly. The toilets were obviously badly maintained, long drops that were letting off a horrendous smell of human excrement.
We had booked accommodation in a small town called Mexican Hat, when I say small, I mean normally there are three hotels open in peak season but at the time we were there we were booked into the only hotel open. It was quite dark by the time we arrived and the only place where we could eat was at the diner attached to our accommodation. The menu was not extensive and the service was a bit slow as the poor man serving us was doing it all himself. We went to bed pretty early as we were spending the whole day at monument valley the next day.
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