Fiction

My dad totally loved it, he had never been in that part of the country before. I'd only been in New Mexico one time years before, so it was a wonderful trip of discovery for both of us. And while we did not travel on the sorts of back roads we would have needed to follow in order to enter into the heart of the Navajo reservation and Tony Hillerman territory, just being close was great fun.

I will always have the image in my memory of when we came around a curve of the highway and I could see Ship Rock in the distance. It was so awesome - we were far away, but there it was all the same, like a dream made real.