A slot canyon on Navajo land. Tomas guided us. An hour and a half, two hundred and ninety-five dollars for the five of us. You may carry nothing inside — a phone and a bottle of water, not even a shoulder bag. This is their land and their law, and they keep it to the letter.
The youngest started digging a hole in the sand. Tomas watched until he had finished, then filled it in with
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