Day 28 #TeslaRoadTripUSA

Moab to Grand Canyon Village via Navajo Nation off reservation Trust land. 479 miles

The Index of all 30 posts from day 1 of our #TeslaRoadTripUSA is HERE.

The Tesla navigation has been great. Today it hiccuped. Our original route was to Grand Canyon village, about 370 miles. But then unexpectedly the Tesla Sat nav decided we didn’t have enough juice to get there, so it rerouted us through Holbrook. (This was wrong. We had more than enough as it turned out.)

Happily, that route adjustment that diverted from the planned route took us to a place we would not otherwise have visited. Indian Route 15. Adding two hours to our journey. Giving us a tour of the Navajo Nation land.

We were in Navajo Nation off reservation Trust land. I was reminded of driving through South Africa during Apartheid. How the Bantustans had the worst land; while the whites enjoyed the best areas.

We drove about 200 miles down the Indian Route 15. It appeared to me that this was some less ideal land than that we have enjoyed thus far on this drive. The housing was extremely low income. We have seen…