[Eugene Levy] A great philosopher once said, "The world is a book,
and those who don't travel read only one page."
[Levy] Well, I've gotta say, I've read a few pages,
and I'm not crazy about the book.
I don't look forward to traveling for a number of reasons.
- When it's too cold, I'm not comfortable. - Whoo.
Ice swimming, naked?
- Yes. - Well, that's a terrific invitation.
Whoa.
When it's too warm, guess what?
I'm not comfortable.
- I can't move that fast. - [Mylo chuckles]
[Levy] But I'm 75.
- You need some help? - No, I got it.
[Levy] And maybe it's time to expand my horizons.
[grunting]
[Levy] Oh, my God.
[grunting]
First time I've had my hand up an elephant's ass.
[Levy] On the plus side,
I'm staying at some unbelievable hotels.
[Levy] Oh, my. This is spectacular.
[Levy] The catch is, I've also agreed to explore what lies outside.
- [Tony] Watch your step. - [Levy] No kidding.
- Beautiful mountain. - [guide] That's a volcano.
That's a volcano?
[Levy] A world I've spent my whole life avoiding.
Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Sadie.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Just surviving would be great.
This is the last time I have five vodkas with a Finn.
[laughing]
[Levy] This landscape is as alien-looking as anything I've ever seen.
There's just a lot of nothing.
So much nothing.
And me.
This is my first time in the desert,
and I can honestly say, it doesn't hold too much appeal for me.
I mean, granted the total lack of humidity is good for my hair, and that's a plus.
But I don't think I'd wanna spend a lot of time...
out here, to be honest.
[Levy] And I know from experience,
just because the situation is bad, doesn't mean it can't get worse.
[helicopter approaching]
Hmm.
[Levy] Did I ever mention I have a thing about heights?
[pilot] Mr. Levy, sir. Good morning.
I'm Tony. I'm gonna be your pilot today.
- Tony. Eu-- Eugene. - Pleasure.
This is gonna be a beautiful scenic flight.
I want you to be able to look around and enjoy it.
I can't really look off a bridge. Um, so we'll see how this goes.
[Levy] I'm thinking "Not well." But I'm sure this is all perfectly safe.
This is a personal flotation device.
It would just go around the waist, click together like so,
- tighten it facing out. Okay? - Yeah.
Have you ever worn a flotation device before?
No, never needed one. Uh, never come that close to death before.
- [Tony] Sure. - But it's good to know it's, uh--
- that it's here. - Okay.
We'll get seated and get on our way.
- Okay. - Right this way.
[Levy] Utah is the 45th state of the USA,
but I think you can sense the real state I'm in right now.
Let the screaming begin.
[Levy] It's called absolute terror.
[Tony] Okay. Here we go.
[Levy groans] God.
[chuckling] It's a little shaky.
[Tony] How are you doing over there?
[stammering] You know, not bad. I'll be opening my eyes momentarily.
- [Tony] Don't let fear paralyze you. - [Levy] Okay.
Um, I haven't seen the view yet, to be honest. I'm looking out now.
It looks like we're flying right into that wall, Tony.
[Tony] We're gonna shoot right over top of that.
Yeah, way over top of it.
Oh, my God.
[Tony] Off to the right-hand side,
you're getting the wonderful Horseshoe Bend.
I'm gonna roll us just a touch to the right here
to give you the full experience.
[chuckling] Ah, yikes.
That's a long way down, Tony.
[Tony chuckles]
Next stop, the beautiful Tower Butte,
towering above the landscape about 300 meters above the ground.
- [Levy] You're gonna land up there? - Yes, sir.
I want to be able to show you the views around this place.
[Levy] Yeah, I've seen the views. Much appreciated.
Not sure we need to land on them.
[Tony] Here we go.
[Levy] Tony, I don't wanna tell you how to do your job.
Doesn't quite look big enough.
Oh, my God. [chuckles]
[Tony] All right, sir. Welcome to Tower Butte.
[Levy] I'd assumed things would be less terrifying
when I got out of the helicopter.
I was wrong.
- [Tony] Just watch your step. - [Levy] No kidding.
- Welcome to the million-dollar view. - [Levy] Wow.
All this land that we're looking at now, would this be a conservation area?
We're actually on Navajo Nation land.
Oh, this is Navajo land.
Very, very sacred, uh, place for the Navajo.
Ah. Wow.
So, looking at these buttes,
you get the sense that everything was at this l-- level.
[Tony] That's exactly right. About 165 million years ago,
where we're standing would have been ground level everywhere
as far as you could see.
[Levy] So, what's next?
Well, Tony thinks we should try and plummet off the edge of this cliff.
We'll see how this goes.
- [Tony] All right, sir. Are you ready? - [Levy] Uh...
[Tony] Okay. Here we go.
Oh, baby!
- [chuckles] Oh. Yikes! - [Tony chuckles]
[Levy] That was as close to falling off a cliff as I've ever come.
[Tony chuckles]
All right, Eugene. As we come around the corner,
you get your first view of the hotel.
The main resort's out in front of us here.
[Levy] That right there?
You can hardly see it.
[Levy] And there she is.
The Amangiri. My home for the next few days.
[sighs] The things I put myself through.
- [Tony] All right, sir, welcome. - Nice landing.
[Levy] They tell me that "Amangiri" means "peaceful mountain".
And at over $3,000 a night, that's some pretty expensive peace.
[Levy] Wow. This place is beautiful.
Hello. Welcome to Amangiri.
- [Levy] Thanks. Hi. - I'm Kauri. Nice to meet you.
Eugene. Nice to meet you.
[Levy] Kauri is here to show me to my suite.
Oh, my.
[Levy] And help pick my jaw up off the floor.
It's absolutely breathtaking.
After you.
[Levy] This is nice.
[Kauri] This is our Girijaala Suite,
which in Sanskrit means "mountainous ridge."
I just love the way this is done. Look at this.
Even the umbrellas and the hats, and the stick blend in with where we are.
It's like they took the color scheme right from my wardrobe
and made a whole world out of it.
[Kauri] And then your private patio's here.
I love the way this hotel sits in with the landscape.
Well, the land is very important to us here.
We do try and embrace the cultural values of the Native Americans.
I myself actually am Navajo.
So that's something that I appreciate about the resort.
Well, that is something that I would love
to learn a little bit more of while I'm here.
- Of course. - That's for sure.
[Levy] Now, this resort is built on federal land,
but it sits on the edge of the Navajo Nation,
the largest Native American reservation in the US.
It fits in perfectly with its surroundings,
which is not a feeling I'm familiar with.
Look at this place.
This is spectacular.
I just can't imagine what it took to build this oasis in the desert.
But thankfully I don't have to.
I'll leave that up to Marwan, one of the hotel's architects.
So, this is the first epic view you get since coming into the hotel?
Exactly. In a way, we wanted to take the view away from you
because when you start to arrive at the hotel,
you're pinched in between this concrete wall and the existing rock,
and you're not quite sure where you're going.
And then you come up these stairs, and-- and after taking it away, bang.
- We wanted to provide something really... - [Levy chuckles]
- ...really dramatic. - It's absolutely majestic.
How do you come up with something like this?
Personally, it comes from a lot of traveling.
Whether it's in Morocco or even in Japan,
and you look at kind of a lot of vernacular architecture,
it's quite simple and basic but to me very elegant.
So, that aspect of simplicity can be very luxurious.
And do you think it is society craving a simpler way to go?
[Marwan] I do.
And I think one of the reasons this hotel has become so successful
is it brings people back to that.
[Levy] Marwan has laid out the hotel in two wings
to ensure all 34 suites get to enjoy the real star of the show.
The idea was, do this kind of, like, cinematic window
- to get the drama of where you are. - Right.
And, you know, there is a history of the West, obviously,
that we're trying to pick up on.
- From westerns by John Ford... - Yeah.
...Sergio Leone with the Panavision screen.
There it is.
This says John Ford to me.
[Levy] It's like the whole place is completely at one with the desert
in the same way that I, just as completely, am not.
[Levy] This is amazing
how this pool swoops around this beautiful-looking rock right here.
For us, it was kind of about how to abstract the landscape.
- [Levy] Yeah. - [Marwan] Basically, water, rock, sky.
We-- We can't outdo these rocks,
but we can allow people to appreciate them in different ways.
[Levy] This is so brilliant
how you have picked up every texture you can imagine
from the landscape around it.
This is a kind of break in the wing where you get this slot canyon
and it gives you this nice view out.
And what are slot canyons?
They're these narrow slivers of eroded rock
that are curving in different directions, and it's all eroded by wind and water.
And, uh, the way light filters through there is absolutely magical.
- [Levy] Wow. Would love to see that. - [Marwan] Definitely should see it.
[Levy] To get to meet the guy that designed this place
and have him take you around
and explain where this whole thing started?
For me, those are the kind of things I love.
I enjoyed it. I wonder if he did.
Maybe he's a better actor than I am.
[Levy] Didn't know it was gonna be this cold.
Nighttime desert, cold but beautiful.
Geographically, you can look around this place
and you have such a strong sense of history.
It's as close to looking at the creation of the planet
as any place I've ever seen.
The Native Americans are the history of this country.
So, I-I-I think the connection
to their culture is something I-- I wanna know more about.
[Levy] So I slept very soundly.
Full marks to the hotel.
But now the most important part of my stay.
Breakfast.
When it comes to food, I'm there in a big way.
It's my favorite part of the job.
- Erik. - [Erik] Hello. Good morning.
- Good to see you, sir. - Good to see you as well.
So, do you cook a lot?
- I barbecue. - [chuckles]
I can't say I'm-- I'm a cook because there's too much involved.
[chuckles]
So I just put some meat on a grill and then I'm pretty good at that.
We're gonna make a pancake this morning.
- It's one of our staples a-- - Pancakes?
- Pancakes. - Okay.
You'd think in a place like Amangiri, you know, that you might find a--
kind of a higher-end kind of "foufou-ish" menu.
If it's too Michelin, for me,
it's sometimes tough to find something you really want to eat.
[Erik chuckles]
That's right. A lot of the guests do like that hometown feel.
[Levy] Yeah.
Now I'm gonna go inside here and reach for the-- the hot pan.
All right. You got it.
Grab my clarified butter,
and then we'll just pop it inside the oven. So it--
[Levy] So it sizzles in clarified butter in a wood oven.
- Oh, my God. This sounds incredible. - [chuckles]
[Levy] Don't let the homespun cooking fool you.
This place is the A-listers retreat of choice.
The trouble is, I know Erik is strictly forbidden
from revealing who they are.
Almost there.
- This is the fun part right here. - [chuckles]
[Levy] Let's see if I can subtly introduce the topic.
So, if I said, "Has George Clooney, uh, sampled your pancakes?"
- You would say... - I can't confirm or deny.
Can't confirm or deny.
Have you made a pancake for Brad Pitt?
[chuckles]
- I take that as a yes. - [chuckles]
- If I just gave you initials... - [chuckles]
...and you just nodded, would that be--
I can say Eugene Levy was here. [chuckling]
- Oh. How sweet is that? - [laughing]
- Little maple syrup on top of it for you? - Yes, please.
- I'm Canadian, maybe I didn't mention. - [chuckles]
[Levy] Wow.
Please enjoy.
Wow, is that good.
Awesome. Thank you.
- That is the most amazing pancake... - Thank you so much.
- ...I've ever had. - [chuckles]
And what did George Clooney say when he had one of these?
[laughing]
[Levy] Now, I've come here to have a life-changing experience,
and these pancakes definitely qualify.
Ask a cardiologist.
But apparently, I've got to say goodbye to Erik and venture out.
I'm dressing a little on the warm side
'cause, uh, I think the air actually gets chilly out here this time of year.
Local guide Raymond is taking me to see the natural phenomenon
which partly inspired the design of the hotel.
[Raymond] It's a pleasure to be, uh, with you this morning, um,
as we, uh, make our way to the slot canyons.
I'm excited to see them. Do you live in this area yourself?
[Raymond] I'm born and raised. So, you know,
this area here is really tied deep to my roots.
[Levy] I gotta be honest.
When I think of slots in the desert, I tend to have Vegas in mind.
But Southern Utah has more of these slot canyons
than anywhere else in the world.
[Levy] Wow. This is incredible.
Look at this.
[Raymond] The geology of this rock would be about 190 million years old.
[Levy] Over the ages, the elements have reshaped this landscape
that's all around me.
This is what happens when nature creates its own cathedral.
[Raymond] And then you would have, um,
high volumes of wind that would create all this smoothness
that we would see right here.
[Levy] How significant are these canyons to the Navajo people?
[Raymond] There's a lot of different storytelling
that they have about these in my culture.
So they say that these canyons here are actually shaped and carved
from everyone and anyone's adversity that they may have faced in life.
So, when you have those moments that you deal with adversity,
when you take those deep breaths that-- [breathes deeply]
[speaks Navajo] Wind.
It would carry that negativity, that adversity,
it would blow it into these slot canyons.
- [Levy] Turning negative-- - In-- Into beauty.
- [Levy] Thoughts into beauty. - Yeah. Yeah, exactly. [chuckles]
Looking at this place,
- I think those prayers have worked. - [chuckles] Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
[Levy] What I picked up from Raymond is that there's--
there's more here than meets the eye.
There's more going on here than just history and geology.
- Good? Nice. - [Levy] Yeah.
I'm, uh, 75, Raymond,
and I can't believe that it's taken me this long
to get to this part of the country, and I'm almost embarrassed to say that.
[Levy] The desert wind doesn't just sweep away negative thoughts.
It's powerful enough to also sweep away the reluctant thoughts
of a creature of habit like me,
because I have, and this is not a phrase I'm accustomed to using,
booked an afternoon's outdoorsy activity.
Going horseback riding.
[Levy] So I know what you're thinking. Am I really a horse person?
I've never been a horse person.
I-- I never know when a horse is happy.
Do you know what I mean?
You know when a dog is happy to see you. But I-- I don't know if a horse actually--
Does he-- Does he wag his tail when he's happy to see you?
But I grew up, just about every television show
in prime time was a western.
You know, Roy Rogers, The Cisco Kid, Wild Bill Hickok.
Let's go, uh-- Let's go start my own western.
Hi.
- Howdy. [chuckles] - [chuckles]
How are you?
- I'm good. I'm Eugene. - Good. I'm Brooke.
- Brooke, how you doing? - Good. You wanna meet the horses?
- Sounds like an odd game show. - [chuckles]
- [Levy] Who's this? - This is Sadie.
- Hey, Sadie. - [snorts]
- Is this my horse? - This is your horse.
Okay. She can sense that, you know, "Oh, we got a newbie."
[chuckles] No, she's very sweet.
The last time I was on a horse was about, uh,
- 50 years ago - [chuckles]
- when I went riding with a friend. - Okay.
- And the two horses sideswiped each other. - [chuckling]
- I got thrown off... - Oh, no.
...but luckily we landed in brush
- and, you know-- - Didn't get hurt.
And I got up and I thought, "Well, maybe they are too big to get on."
[snorts]
[Brooke] You look like you're ready to play polo.
[in British accent] A little spot of polo...
- Yes. - ...and then off to cricket.
- How's that? - Uh...
- [chuckles] Good? - Yeah.
[Levy] And this is why cowboys never wore glasses. Not a good look.
[Brooke] How's that feel?
- Well, it kind of feels like a wishbone. - [chuckles]
- Okay. The loose is go, okay? - Okay.
- Yep, and then just lean back. - That's a good girl.
Yeah, and then just put your heels down when you stop.
All right. Are we ready?
[Levy] Maybe the horse is ready. I'm not.
All right. Come over here, Sadie.
[Levy] Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Sadie.
- [Brooke] Whoa. Whoa, Sadie. Whoa. Sadie! - Okay. Okay, honey.
[Brooke] Tighten your reigns up.
Okay, so just keep your reins a little tighter
- and then she won't do that to you. - [Levy] Yeah.
No, no, no. Come on, baby.
- Come on. Come on. That's it. - [Brooke] There you go.
[Levy] Yeah, totally in control. That's the name of the game.
- [Brooke chuckling] - You gotta let 'em know who's boss, right?
- [Sadie whinnies] - [Levy] Whoa.
[Levy] Now, I'm told there are seven miles of horse trails,
which for me would be about six and a half too many.
I don't know whether I would have gotten back on a horse,
but I'm doing my best trying to do things that I wouldn't normally do.
[Brooke] Are you feeling like a cowboy?
I-- I'm feeling like the worst possible cowboy.
This is one cowboy that will never have his own movie.
[chuckles]
The only thing I'm missing is chewin' tobacco and my gun.
[Brooke] We carry guns to shoot the rattlesnakes and the coyotes.
[Levy] Have you come across a rattlesnake on a trail ride?
[Brooke] Yes.
- [Levy] That's it. Heart's palpitating. - [Brooke laughs]
[Levy] For some reason, Sadie decides to spare my life
and I get back to the hotel.
My bed seems to be calling,
but tonight I have front-row tickets to quite the show.
A private stargazing session with Navajo guide Mylo.
- How you doing, Eugene? - How are you?
I am doing so great.
- Good to have you out here. - Wow.
[Levy] My job is to sit back and look up,
and I'm pretty confident I can do that really well.
There anything up there that's important to you?
You have a sense that you're kind of relatively insignificant
- in the giant scheme of things. - Yeah.
Well, we're gonna explore that a little bit
according to some of our traditional stories.
All right.
Earlier, I made, uh, little wood chips over there.
If you can grab those, I'll get these bigger logs and...
- Sure. - ...we'll, uh, get warm.
When's the last time you built a fire?
Um... [clicks tongue] Never.
[Mylo chuckles] Okay. Well, we're getting there.
You know where the North Star is at?
- Uh, I, uh-- I should know where it's at. - [chuckles]
Um, I think it's in this...
- [Mylo] Yeah. - ...general area.
It's actually right over there.
- That's what I meant. - [chuckles] Yeah.
- And so in our creation story... - [Levy] Yes.
...that was one of the original first stars
that was placed so it'd be the brightest one.
They said no matter where our people go,
they will always be able to look up at night
to remember teachings that we have.
Is there a lesson in what we're seeing up there?
My grandpa is such a wise man.
And one thing that he taught me when I was a kid was,
we're made of the same material as those stars.
He said, "Just remember, all these stars are like all the people on Earth,
because when you connect that star to this star,
multiple generations are connecting."
Grandpa always said that we're all important,
just like every single star that is out here.
- Wow. That's very enriching, Mylo. - [chuckling]
I said, looking at the stars, I-- I feel somewhat insignificant.
And I think what you're telling me is that when you look out
into that vast night sky, that I should feel significant.
Shouldn't feel lost.
Yeah, you shouldn't feel lost because when you look up,
there are things up there that can remind you that you aren't.
Would you like to travel with me?
Because I'm feeling really terrific listening to you.
It's a great way to feel, just feeling significant.
And the desert can do that. It's a spiritual place.
I'm getting that.
Are you a spiritual person?
- At my core, I am. - Mm-hmm.
But I think the closest I've come
to relating that spirituality to the land has been right here.
So, I think for me it's a good first step.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Thank you, sir.
[Levy] This place has affected me in ways that other places have not.
I understand the spiritual aspect of it.
I get it. I can feel it. I can almost touch it.
You're feeling something.
And Mylo was very articulate in laying that out
from the perspective of the Navajo Nation.
[Levy] So it's my last day and I've learned a lot.
Mainly that the desert which you'd think is a hot place,
not so much.
Chilly night last night, wasn't it? It was cold. Yeah.
Getting back to this place was like the icing on a dry, sandy cake.
[Levy] But before I head home,
I've received a special invitation to visit the farm
where Mylo grew up on the Navajo reservation.
[Mylo] Spiritually, our boundary would be the-- the Colorado River.
And so anything on this side of it would be Navajo land.
And so, when we signed the treaty in 18, uh-- 68,
that's when the federal government said, basically, "Here's your reservation."
And so that's what we now reside in.
[Levy] Mylo explains that the name Navajo
is a Spanish adaptation of a Pueblo word meaning "farmers of the valley,"
which still applies for many today.
[Mylo] This is, uh, my parents' place. It's two miles from the highway.
[Levy] And what was it like growing up here for you?
[Mylo] It was everything. Your--
The major responsibilities revolved around the family,
and my childhood was wrapped around that and hanging out with my grandpa.
So, this truly is a family homestead, right?
Yeah. There's my mom and dad's house. Right there. The brown one.
- [Levy] Wow. - And then, uh,
my sister's place is over here to the right in the peach home.
- Well, Eugene-- - Wow.
- How big is your place here? - [Mylo] It's a few thousand.
- Yeah, it's several-- [chuckles] - A few thousand acres?
- That's what I call a spread. - [chuckles] Yeah.
We'll go see, uh, what-- what the update is on the sheep.
- You ready to get our shoes dirty? - You have sheep?
[chuckles] Yeah. Look there's the sheep. See them right there?
Let's actually go this way to chase them back in.
We've got one, uh, pretty wild-spirited sheep. His name is Wilbur.
He's not my biggest friend. So hopefully, uh, he doesn't ram into us.
[Levy] If he's not your biggest friend,
- what's he gonna think of me? - [chuckles] I don't know.
- This is already sounding exciting. - [chuckles]
Okay. We're just gonna herd them back into the-- their-- their little corral here.
- Oh, there it is. Okay. - [Mylo] Yeah.
Well, that's easy enough.
Well, sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not.
- [Levy] I don't think-- - There's one already taking off.
[Levy] Uh-oh. Wrong way, kids.
- [Mylo chuckles] - [Levy] Uh-oh.
[both laughing]
[Levy] Had the sheep been better behaved, I could have showed you what I can do.
What's the expression? Herding? Herding sheep? Herding sheep.
[Mylo] They're cruising.
[Levy] I'm known as a wrangler.
You know, wrangling things. It's like my middle name,
Wrangler.
[both laugh]
[Levy] As my wife, Deb, would call me,
the "Kosher Cowboy" is back.
This is just playing into my strength out here.
I'm glad I have an opportunity, uh, to show off a few skills
that, uh, most people don't get a chance to see.
- Mylo, I can't move that fast. I'm older. - [Mylo laughs]
[Levy] We're never gonna get 'em.
- Boy, did they take off. - [Mylo] Yeah.
- [Levy] Why? - They saw you and me
and they were like, "We're gone."
[Levy] The sheep ran as soon as they saw me.
Did they see a movie they didn't particularly care for?
- [Mylo] They're on the run. Yeah. - They're still going.
Are they gonna come back on their own?
[Mylo] I mean, they know to-- to come in here
because we've got mountain lion, foxes, coyote. So--
You have mountain lions?
Uh, they're more towards the rocks you see over there.
These rocks right here?
- Yeah. So the-- [chuckles] - Well, what do you mean, "way over there"?
We have a pig. You wanna go see Lulu?
- I'll take a look at a pig. - [chuckles]
- [Levy] Oh, my. That's a big pig. - [Mylo chuckles] Yeah. She's a big girl.
[Levy] Lulu.
If you go in there and pet her, she'll squeal. She's funny.
You can pet me in certain places and I'll squeal.
[Mylo laughs]
[Levy] The sheep are back.
Just took a while for my authority to sink in.
[Mylo] Hey, there we go. All right.
[Levy] And let that be a lesson to you.
You don't go running off unless you're given permission, understand?
[Mylo] Yeah. [chuckles]
So this is their feed. You wanna go in there and dump some in?
Okay, kids, mealtime.
- Meal-- No, no-- N-- No. - [Mylo] Oh. [laughs]
I found Wilbur a little pushy.
- Okay, you know what? - Just bring it over this way.
These animals are spoiled.
- [Mylo] That's like ice cream to them. - There-- No, kids, kid, kids.
You know, you think of sheep as being gentle, lovely...
[stammers] ...thing-- No, this is like a-- It is like a bull.
- Okay, you know what? - [chuckles]
We've gotta teach these animals some manners.
- Okay. [chuckles] - No, there's nothing in here. There's--
How important is it to keep the traditions alive today?
[Mylo] It's vital to retain these things.
I love to say I'm deeply rooted in the land, you know?
When we're born, a piece of our umbilical cord,
you know, that's put into the ground
to connect us instantly from our birth back to Mother Earth.
And so to not have much of that in one's life, um,
I can see why somebody may feel a little bit lost.
[Levy] The Navajo are a matriarchal society.
The women control the land and own the livestock.
And the great thing about this way of working is, things get done properly.
- Eugene, this is my mom. Shimá. - [Shimá speaks Navajo]
- [Levy] Shimá, hi. - [Shimá] Oh.
- This is my sister, Patricia. - [Patricia] Yeah. Hi.
- This is Desree. - [Desree] Hello.
- [Levy] Desree, nice to meet you. Eugene. - Yes. Good to meet you.
- [Patricia] Yeah. - Lauren, my wife.
Nice to meet you, Lauren.
- Yeah. - [Mylo] Yeah.
- I saw some little ones around here-- - [all chuckle]
[Mylo] They're actually all over there.
- Our family tree almost 200. - [Desree chuckles]
200?
- Yeah. [chuckles] - So, when you have a family get-together,
- there's a lot of people. - [Desree] Yes.
- [Mylo] A few. - [Levy] You need--
- It's a long buffet table. - [all laughing]
[Mylo] Yeah. [chuckles]
The things we learn, we, uh, definitely pass on to our kids
so that they can carry these teachings and these lessons forward.
[Desree] That's the important thing.
Is just keeping our culture and our language and our heritage,
especially our ceremonies, um, alive.
- Keeping it alive. - Yes,
and teaching our next generation who we are,
because our grandparents are the ones that hold that tradition for us
- and a lot of them have passed. And it's... - Ah.
...it's been tough because we are people of, you know,
just...
- of culture that we gather... - [Levy] Yeah.
...and it's been hard.
My nephew Owen, uh, is just a fantastic, uh, young man,
and, um, he loves to dance.
[Desree] So with hoop dancing, you gotta use your imagination.
And you'll notice the different movements that he's making,
he's also showing different types of animals as well.
[Levy] Well, it's been a pretty amazing afternoon.
Mylo is an incredible young man and he has an amazing family.
I mean, watching Owen and looking over at Mylo
and seeing his eyes welling up.
- [Mylo] It makes me proud of Owen... - [Levy] Yeah.
...to keep this alive. Yeah.
- I can see it in your eyes, Mylo. - [chuckles]
- Yeah. - [Desree chuckles]
- [Levy] Owen, amazing. - [Desree, Patricia chuckling]
- [Levy] Amazing! - [Patricia] Good job.
- [Levy] Wow! - [Desree] Nice job, Owen.
- [Shimá] Ah. - Yeah.
- Yeah! - [Desree] Yeah!
I really didn't know much about Navajo culture before this,
and this-- this is a big eye-opener for me.
- We're happy to have had you here. So-- - Wow.
- [Patricia] Yes. - As part of our grandmother's teaching,
we present you this necklace.
[gasps]
- [Desree chuckles] There you are. - [Mylo chuckles]
A part of our culture and our language will always be with you.
- Thank you. - This is amazing.
This is-- This is really special.
The desert is a lot of nothing,
but there's so much in that nothing.
It's history, and it's geology, and it's the people who have been
on this land for 15,000 years.
So, it was kind of an honor for me to be on this land with them.
If I had come here on my own,
I probably would have loved staying at the Amangiri
and would have spent most of my time on the resort.
But there is a world outside the resort here
that I'm glad I got a chance to see and discover.
And the, uh, friends that I met in the Navajo Nation,
I think was probably the biggest...
highlight and the greatest discovery, uh, that I had here.