Monument Valley Must See Sights

On Your Own Suggestions

• Stop by historic Goulding’s Lodge and visit their movie museum. The museum is housed in the original Trading Post and home of Harry and “Mike” Goulding. Harry brought movie director John Ford to Monument Valley to see the landscapes—and the rest is movie-making history. Visit a movie set from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and walk back in time as you browse the wonderful collection of movie-making memorabilia and Indian artifacts.

• Stop in nearby Kayenta, Arizona to see the Navajo Code Talkers exhibit in the Burger King. Most of the artifacts on display were the possessions of a Navajo serviceman who transmitted secret messages during World War II. There’s also a brief history of the Code Talkers, who were organized in the early 1940s. Beginning with the battle for Guadalcanal, the Navajos used their language to relay messages and, because there were no written texts in Navajo, the Japanese couldn’t decipher the dispatches.