Have you ever gone on an adventure? BFF and her parentals and I recently went on one and it was quite the experience. Â We had every intention of going out to a local attraction and somehow ended up an hour out of our way on a dirt road in the middle of the Navajo reservation all thanks to Google Maps. Â What we did discover, however, is that the four of us can make a good time out of even getting lost.
It all started out with BFF’s Momma wanting to go see Grand Falls, a natural waterfall system located out on the Navajo reservation. Â It only flows with snow melt and is actually higher than Niagara Falls. Â Since none of us had ever been out there and we heard it was flowing rather heavily, we decided to take the trip and go see it. Â Instead of asking for directions or looking it up, BFF put it into Google Maps and we headed out early in the morning. Â I mean, Google Maps has never steered us wrong before. Â Back before there was GPS, we did get lost trying to get to Disneyland and ended up in Compton. Â Luckily, Bubby was able to decipher the tiny map I had printed off the computer and get us to where we wanted to be. Â GPS always re-routes you if you turn wrong so I felt pretty confident about using it to get out to Grand Falls. Â I was so wrong.
Now Grand Falls is only 30 miles outside of town so it shouldn’t have taken us too long to get there. Â We followed Janice (that is what we call the voice on Google Maps) and ended up on a dirt road, which wasn’t too surprising. Â Since it was a weekend and the falls were so full, I thought we would see a lot more people driving on the same dirt road as us. Â Nope. Â Totally alone. Â On a dirt road. Â In the middle of no where with no signs. Â An hour and a half later, we were still on various unmarked dirt roads and hoping that somehow, they led to the falls. Â I kept thinking that what if we broke down or what if an axe murderer came out of the landscape to kill us all. Â Seriously, the reservation is pretty desolate. Â Janice kept directing us on all these unmarked dirt roads and I was thoroughly convinced that we were going to end up stranded with only 2 mini bottles of water and a couple of breakfast bars between us. Â We might have to resort to cannibalism to survive. Â Who would we eat first? Â This is a serious question to ask yourself when traveling with a group of people. Â Do you not think of this? Â No? Â Just me then? Â Ok…well I did wonder which one of the four of us we would eat first if we were stranded and needed to survive. Â Totally normal way of thinking when you are lost on the reservation if you ask me. Â Don’t judge.
Eventually, the road turned and we could see the canyon and the falls so we pulled up and got out. Â Upon doing that and looking around, I realized something. Â We were on the wrong side of the falls. Â The official lookout and parking was on the other side. Â How the heck we ended up on that side was beyond me. Â None of us could figure out how we ended up on the that side. Â Where did we make the wrong turn? Â We followed GPS. Â We listened to Janice. Â She let us down. Â We risked our lives and almost ate one another to get here and we are on the wrong side? Â Sigh. Â Well at least we had a good laugh, a great time and ended up with epic pictures. Â No, really, they are quite epic and not because of the falls. Â Because of BFF’s bang. Â Her bang could not compete with the winds around the falls and I couldn’t see because of the sun, so I had no idea what was happening until we looked t the pictures later. Â Epic I tell you. Â See for yourself.




Upon leaving, we ran into others who Janice had led astray and ended up on the wrong side. Â Stupid GPS. Â Turns out that we went about an hour out of our way and we still have no idea how to get to the right side of the falls. Â Or how we got out of there without eating one another. Â GPS fail.
Oh yeah. Â I didn’t die today. Â I did, however, consider which one of us I would eat first if we got stranded on the reservation but I didn’t die. Â I am Fat Girl with epic pictures of BFF’s bang on a reservation adventure Running. Â The experiment continues…