Meteor Crater Winslow

We pulled off the road for a couple of days in Winslow Arizona. Does everyone remember the song by the Eagles titled, "Take it Easy", well we decided to do just that.

We did manage to go to a local attraction called Meteor Crater which was quite interesting. It is supposedly the best preserved and identified meteor crater on the planet. …

Vroeg op, flink ontbeten in het hotel, sleutels gedropt en op weg naar Flagstaff. Ik had uitgerekend dat het ongeveer 270 mile zou zijn, uiteindelijk werden dat er iets meer, daarover later meer.


Eerste doel: de Hoover Dam. Deze dam is gebouwd in 1930 en voorziet een deel van de omgeving van stroom, maar dient ook om stroomafwaarts …

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Dr hüttig Dag isch im Sinn vo "easy going" gstande. I bin spöter als suscht uffgstande und bin no kurz ine Walmart mol widdr mi Autolfood go ufflade. Denn hani mi richtig Flagstaff uffgmacht. Damit i nit widdr die glich Streggi zruggfahr, wie ich vom Grand Canyon richtig Page gfahre bin, bini no biz witter öschtilich gfahre und han e kline Umwäg …

Well, I am horribly behind on my blog. We have been doing so much, that at night all I want to do is get into bed! It has been blast though.
Once we left Amarillo we drove through New Mexico. We did not have time to stop and do anything, but have a picnic lunch. However, the view driving through was incredible. It just amazes me how many …

Heute ging es weiter Richtung Osten. Unser Ziel war Gallup in New Mexico, also unser dritter Bundesstaat auf der Reise bislang. Auf dem Weg dahin, ging es immer der Interstate 40 entlang. Diese hat nette Sehenswürdigkeiten auf ihrem Weg dahin zu bieten. So stoppten wir schon nach knapp 10 Meilen am Walnut Canyon. Dieser kleine Nationalpark, bietet …

That was the day when I seriously considered having a heart attack. Lesson of the day is, always read the information booklet!

It was time for me to leave Sedona. I woke up at 5 am, I packed my bag and checked the room multiple times to avoid leaving something there. My heart stopped for a second when I realized that I couldn't find my …

Fra 1880′erne tog vi et spring i tiden frem til 1950′erne. Næste ret på menuen var den legendariske Route 66. Vi skulle køre fra Holbrook til Kingman via bl.a. Seligman, som efter sigende har “stået model” til Kølerkildekøbing fra filmen Cars.Vi landede i Holbrook sidst på eftermiddagen, og fik handlet lidt ind. …

Today we went to see Meteor Crater in Arizona.  A meteor hit Arizona 50,000 years ago and made a huge crater.  You could put 20 football fields in the middle.  That is how big it is!!  First, we went into the museum to learn about the ...

... titled, "Take it Easy", well we decided to do just that.   We did manage to go to a local attraction called Meteor Crater which was quite interesting.  It is supposedly the best preserved and identified meteor crater on the planet.  The ...

... the best $15 I've spent to see a big hole in the ground.  ; ) Prior to visiting the crater, I spent the night in the town of Winslow, Arizona.  Yes, it's THAT Winslow, Arizona from the Eagles song "Take it Easy".   The center ...

Change of plans. Instead of the Grand Canyon, we decided to try out a smaller, practice hole in the earth-the Meteor Crater (www.meteorcrater.com). A big fiery meteor landed there about 50,000 years ago. It measures a mile across and the perimeter is 2 ...

... Monument and finally off of interstate 40 east of Flagstaff, Walnut Canyon National Monument.  We did not stop at the Meteor Crater National ? off of 40 because about 11:30am the highs winds that were forecast for east of Flagstaff came across the ...

big hole in the ground.  but the strata was inverted.  guide said you could take the meteorite if you could carry.  probably joking.  bet i could have hauled the 600 ...

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We stopped at meteor crater and saw the hole. Just awesome - 60 stories deep and 2.5 miles round. A 150 feet meteor created the hole. We saw a little movie on meteors and went on a guided hike. There were two annoying kids that had no disciple and ...

Near meteor crater, it was getting a little dark to venture in so maybe on the way ...

It's not the oldest. It's not the biggest. But it is the best preserved meteor crater on Earth. NASA even used it to train the Apollo astronauts for the terrain of the Moon. ...