Days Inn - Holbrook - Gateway To Petrified Forest
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This time it's Arizona to the north
From Albuquerque we begin our Route 66 "official" trip. Route 66 changes into I 40 through the mountains and we take all the historic route 66 exits instead of staying on the freeway. For the young folks reading this : Route 66 was the only interstate road in the 1930's from Chicago to California. So we said goodbye last night to New Mexico. We …
We race the Sun
... crater confirmed to be caused by a meteor strike. I also learned that the 1984 Jeff Bridges movie Starman had some of its scenes filmed at the crater, I enjoyed that movie when it first came out and will have to watch it again to see the crater used.
It serves as a perfect segway as we push down I40 towards Roswell.
That's it for now from the middle of the American southwest.
The Waffles
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Southwestern Marvels
... the replacement of oxygen with silica rich minerals (such as quartz), the tree turned from biomass to stone. Silica crystals formed in the pieces of wood, thus giving them their stunning color. From here we drove until we exited the land and parked at a gift shop right on the outside of the park for some good old souvenir shopping. However, the gift shop we stopped at was closed, which gave my mother and I a good laugh, as we walked across the street to a ...
The forest of Frightened Trees
... the sign to "open" at 8am and enjoyed the 20-minute park film that explains the history of the park and the process by which the many, MANY logs in the park became fossilized. The kids picked up “Junior Ranger” workbooks to complete and we hit the road. The park is laid out as one long road between two state highways, so it’s easy to enter at the North end of the park (as we did) and ...
The Parent Trap
... light is supposed to light up the desert in amazing hues, it was still a very beautiful sight. The red sand and hills stretched into the distance, mixing in with normal white sand and some shrubs and petrified trees. I've always like desert landscapes, and what we saw in the Painted Desert was almost the quintessential one.
After Lacey Point we stopped at Pintado Point, which was at a bend in the road and gave a panoramic view of the desert. This was even better than at Lacey ...
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