Which one?
Desert Rose is a NICE place!
Biggest rooms I've ever stayed in!
Hillerman was my Favorite!
I could SMELL the air fragrance in my mind as I read was he had written about the area in his books!
The Navajo have lost a good friend; and the world will no longer wonder about Chee's and Leaphorn's lovelife.
The motel in question is the one depicted in the book “thief of time”. It is on the river. There is a framed letter in the lounge that designates the room as being the center of Bluff as described in his book. It is old but nice and “is In the book”
A short piece beyond is the river outfitter also described and who took us on the ride down the river. We lunched at the place where Chaco wash intersects the river. It is also the site of perhaps the greatest array of petroglyphs existent. It is also the point where Joe Leaphorn left the river and hiked up Chaco wash in search of the Park archeologist
Regarding the view from Cedar Mesa, It does seem to go on forever and is one of the best in the world anywhere. I think driving it at night is a very significant achievement. I’ve been down twice and up once.
There is a lot written about recession, double dip recession. The view from Mule point and the Mokee Dugway are my metaphor for our economy. In late 2008, The country took the drive off the sheer mesa wall and is now on the seemingly endless and flat plateau below. There is a rise now and then but the mountains on the horizon never seem to get much closer.
BTW, in October we spent part of a day in Nauvoo and visited all the historic places there including a really great visitors center. We were on an adventure traveling down the Great River Road from Lake Itaska MN to the rivers end in Venice LA.