Navajo trip Day-1 Departure 7/13/2022

I woke up earlier than normal and cooked our lunch on the road. We left our home around 8 a.m. as scheduled leaving for Navajoland. It was a Wednesday day morning, but the traffic was heavy. Maybe many families are on vacation trip with their children.

We arrived around8 p.m. We came back to Navajoland just 1.5 month ago, so my mom-in-law didn’t cry like she did last time.

After we ate the chicken fried rice that my mom in law cooked for us, we went on a walk to our homesite. We were shocked to see the tarp covered on our shed’s foundation floor were torn down and the wooden floor was exposed under the sun. The tarp we purchased before last winter was the expensive one because it was a heavy-duty and thick one. It was still fine on our last visit. According to my mom-in-law, last month they had a high wind and heavy rain and that was the cause of the tarp’s tear. We will have to purchase a heavy-duty tarp again on this trip.

On our homesite, we have two pine trees. They are still very young as we found them after we received a homesite permit in August of 2019. During the counselling with a homeopath, she suggested me to drink a pine needle tea as I am allergic to pine tree. When I heard the advice, I thought of these pine trees on our homesite. So, I went to the two pine trees and asked for a permission from them and took some pine needles from each tree. I washed them and soaked them in water for one night.