#380 RV park Quality Inn Navaho land one night, Tuba City Arizona

Whenever I was looking for a place near tuba City there was a Navajo campground that I wanted to go to and it was closed because of covid it was up on a higher elevation near town.

I called the Navajo Chapter House near Tuba City and talked to a lady named Delight Butler and asked her if I could stay in the parking lot of the chapter house for one night and she said that would be okay. I said if you like I'd be more than happy to do some electrical work as barter and she said we have men here that can take care of that. I thought I had assumed that they were helpless and I could ride in on my horse and save the day. She said, in essence, we've got this we don't need you to come to rescue us but you can sleep in the parking lot. I thanked her but as that day got closer for one reason or another I decided to ride on through and go into Tuba City because I found a full hookup at the quality inn. We had been boondocking for several days and I just thought maybe it was time for a full hookup.

We went by the front desk for the park and checked in. When I went back behind the Quality Inn it was just a really large dirt parking lot with probably 40 RVs parked in sardine fashion. It wasn't so close you were touching, at least that was good.

Some places are not that attractive but there's nothing about them that's bad either. It’s just not a resort place you know. We had a nice rest. The amenities of a full hookup and we just kind of paused for a minute and that evening we went out looking for a place to have a sit-down meal. Because of covid, the Navajo people were afraid of reopening because they had taken a really big hit from covid deaths. We couldn't find anything open and some places had some to-go options and we just found a nice pizza joint that had to go only. We rode down there and got a couple of pizzas and had to back towards the house. This would be us getting kind of closer to our final destination. Our next stop would be Flagstaff which is rather close to Sedona, probably 45 minutes away. We had left NC a month ago and now it's all in sight and we had created the needed gap for me to go to Wilmington before starting the gig in Sedona on October 1.

The restaurant wasn't very exciting but it was certainly the only thing in town in the area. This was Tuba City. It was named Tuba because the Mormons couldn't pronounce his name Tuvi or Toova; so they just decided it would be Tuba.

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuba_(chief)

Tuba City (Navajo: Tó Naneesdizí) is an unincorporated town in Coconino County, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, United States. It is the second-largest community in Coconino County. The population of the census-designated place (CDP) was 8,611 at the 2010 census.[4]

It is the most populous community within the Navajo Nation, slightly larger than Shiprock, New Mexico, and the site of the headquarters of the Western Navajo Agency. The Hopi village of Moenkopi lies directly to its southeast, and Hopi also live in the city.

European Americans named the town in honor of chief Tuuvi, a Hopi man from Oraibi who converted to Mormonism (religion of Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)) and allowed Mormon migrants to settle in the area. The Navajo name for this community, Tó Naneesdizí, translates as "tangled waters". It likely refers to the many below-ground springs that are the source of several reservoirs.

Tuba City is located within the Painted Desert near the western edge of the Navajo Nation. The town is served by U.S. Route 160, near the junction with Arizona State Route 264. Tuba City is located approximately 50 miles (80 km) from the eastern entrance to Grand Canyon National Park and approximately 78 miles (126 km) from Flagstaff. Most of Tuba City's residents are Navajo, with a small Hopi minority.

Navajo Nation Kayenta Chapter, US-163, Kayenta, AZ 86033

Delight Butler, Chapter Manager (928) 697-5520

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