Monument Valley is not the same anymore

Today our goal was to get from Moab to somewhere near Grand Canyon South Rim for a night. So we started very early in the morning, but first visited less known Corona Arch at the end of Potash Road. This is a big arch not covered by Arches NP, because of its location on the other side of road 191. It took us some time to get there from the parking lot and we found quite interesting shortcut that allowed us to avoid ladders. Unfortunately it was a bit more risky, but we got fun. Sun wasn't favorable for us and allowed us to take only few pictures before hiding behind dense clouds. So we were waiting about 30 minutes and decided to go, because time flew very quickly and we were in the hurry.
Almost the whole day we spent in the car, but stopped by for a short visit in Monument Valley. We were lucky. It wasn't a classic sunny day - I saw thunders, clouds and lightnings for the first time in my life in this place. Everything was different and thus much more interesting. We headed to Navajo park and got surprised - Indian stalls being always down the road 42 disappeared! You can't buy jewelery here anymore or we didn't find it. Whats even worse they are building the big hotel with the Monument Valley view just on the edge - it destroys the whole atmosphere that were here before. But what can you do - it's Indian's land and they do what they want.
Because it was really late, we decided to quickly make the classic loop, take some pictures and go farther, look for the lodging. Weather was getting worse, wind was carrying a lot of sand that was everywhere - it especially came to like our gear, so we had a lot of cleaning later that day. We somehow managed to take some good pictures and left the place that isn't the same anymore. I don't like the changes introduced here...
On our way to the hotel we stopped by Indian's restaurant in Tuba City - they had very good ribs. Unfortunately there wasn't any hotel available there, so we went farther to Flagstaff and found Days Inn there. We arrived very late, but they had Internet so spent some much time browsing e-mails and webpages before fell asleep.

From Bryce to Canyonlands

In the morning just after finishing the sunrise photo session at Sunrise Point we left amazing Bryce Canyon. We decide to take road 12 through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef NP. This is very scenic road going through an interesting part of Utah. We saw some fields watered by machines that generated ice instead of water - quite surprising picture! I'm still wondering for what they do this kind of field icing? Maybe you know the answer?
In the Grand Staircase-Escalante there's very interesting waterfall on the Calf Creek - or even two waterfalls - upper and lower. We decided to take a trip to lower one, because seemed to be easier. Going there is worth every minute and every bead of sweat. What you see at the end of the trails is really wonderful! We took many pictures of the waterfall from different angles - after filling all memory cards decided to get back to the car and finally go to the Dead Horse Point State Park where we had reservation at campground. It took us almost the whole day, but we arrived just in time for sunset photo session at Dead Horse Point Overlook.
In the dark we set up our tent on pad number 4. Of course nobody is working here so late, so we had to do everything ourselves: pay entrance fee, register at campground, set up tent, etc. After quick supper we reviewed our plans for the next day and it turned out that we don't have enough fuel - unfortunately nearest gas is in Moab - 32 miles away. We decide to go there to buy some gas and some food for next few days. We returned to the campground really late and on our way back almost hit the black cow on the black road in the pitch black night - cows are everywhere here, because there's open range.
We sleep in the tent - it is whorishly cold and I have to sleep in all what I have - night temperatures were for sure below 32F. We somehow survived the night and almost 2 hours before dawn we headed to famous Mesa Arch for morning photo session.