Arizona February 7, 2020

This Friday was going to be an easy day.  Drive from Page to Flagstaff with a detour to the Vermillion National Monument.   I hadn't done too much research, but it was on the way and I could check it out.  It turned out to be really beautiful and I was able to spend some time watching the condors fly over the cliffs.  Even with my zoom lenses I wasnt able to get great photos but considering the distance I was probably lucky to get any photos at all.  

Between the road to Flagstaff and Vermilluon Cliffs is Lee's Ferry, a segment of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and I spent some time exploring there.  There is still a number of buildings there along with the orchard and cemetery of early explorers.  Lee from the name Lee's Ferry settled here while running from the law.  He was part of the infamous Mountain Meadow Maascre in southern Utah and participated in the  slaught of wagon trains on the way to California.  Prominent in the Mormon Church, Lee had 19 wives and 67 children. However, this church-going man was executed by firing squad in 1877 for his part in the Mountain Meadows Massacre 20 years before.

The property passed through a number of families (mostly Mormon) before ending up in the hands of the US Natuonsl Park system.  
I ended up back in Flagstaff around 5pm and decided to hit the library to download photos and get a head start on things.  I closed out the public library and moved onto the university library which was open until midnight. Didn't need to close out that library but I was there until after 10pm.  Got my stuff done and headed to the gym for my first shower since Monday and the next level of purple shampoo.  Another layer makes a lot of difference, lol.  It's taken about 5 applications of purple shampoo, but I have purple hair again.


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