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New Monument Valley visitor facilities debut

Arizona’s Monument Valley, magnificent site of many classic Hollywood Western classics, has some of the most fantastic views in he world. Now they’ll be even more convenient for visitors. The View Hotel, the first ever to be built inside the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, which is an enormous vista of nearly 30 thousand acres of government-protected Native American lands.

Alongside The View, and scheduled to open in October, is a new visitors center and museum. They’ll provide visual and sound information about the Monument Valley features. They’ll also house a museum honoring World War II Navajo secret code talkers who, as US Marines, were vital communicators who confused enemy intelligence during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.

For more information, go to www.navajonationparks.org

Survey: Top Cities In The World For Livability PDF Print E-mail


Many seniors retiring today have the option of choosing to move out of their home town, away from their native land and settle in a city on the other side of the world. Not only can it be less costly, safer and free of excessive taxes, but the culture more traditionally senior-friendly.

The 18th annual Mercer Quality of Life survey listed 230 cities, with the top five rankings going to Vienna, Austria, Zurich, Switzerland, Auckland, New Zealand, Munich, Germany and Vancouver, Canada. The top U.S. cities on the list, at #28 is San Francisco, #34 Boston, #35 Honolulu and #43 Chicago.

If you’re wondering, the bottom five on the list are Khartoum, Sudan, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sana’a, Yemen, and (Operation Desert Storm vets are not surprised to know) Baghdad, Iraq.

 
 
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