I drive back roads.  I mean BACK ROADS.  Back roads to the back roads.  On this particular day I was heading to Hovenweep National Monument in Utah.  I left the Grand Canyon in the morning and was heading through Monument Valley on U.S. 163 to get there. Just because it is a Federal highway, don’t think it isn’t a long lonely drive through some desolate spots.

This was somewhere close to the Arizona – Utah border.