After Monument Valley, we visited Canyon de Chelly (a national monument), which has been on my bucket list since I first saw Ansel Adams’ photograph of White House Ruin many years ago. The fertile canyon floor has been continuously occupied by Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi), their predecessors, and their successors (Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo people) for nearly 5,000 years. We drove the south and north rim drives (which offer some spectacular overlooks), took a Navajo-guided tour of the canyon floor, and hiked the the White House Ruin trail. On our way home, we visited Shiprock (known to the Navajo as the rock with wings) in New Mexico—the most prominent of the many eroded volcanic plugs in the region.