Canyon De Chelly, arrived

5/14/2007
We got to Canyon De Chelly yesterday. When we arrived we drove into the visitor center looking for the campground. We could see it over the hill but didn't know how to get there. As we were driving through the visitor center parking lot a car pulled up beside us and ask if we were looking for the campground and we said yes we were. They said just follow us we are going there and we did. When we got to the campground the lady in the car said there are only two sites left that are big enough for your rig and she showed us where they were. We took the first one she showed us. She told us that they had the same problem the day before and knew how we felt in a strange campground. We thanked her for her help. They were from Montana and also had a large motorhome. One of the nice things about traveling is running into helpful people like that. The literature on the campground said it could only handle up to 35 footers, ours is 37 foot. Believe me there were a lot of RVs in there that were bigger than 35 foot. After we had been there 3 days we saw a lady coming around every evening taking down licence numbers. We ask her what the stay limit was and she said 5 days. The campground is free but has no hookups. It only has toilet facilities and a dump station. While we were there, we saw many natives coming in with their pickups and filling six to twelve 5 gallon containers with water. I presume to take home. Our 5 days were up on Saturday so we left for the Four Corners and Mesa Verda.