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Catching our breath in New Mexico

A travel blog entry by noah_and_bree

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We wake up in Grants, New Mexico, and get a kick out of looking out of the window and seeing the red desert and blue sky.

I was then extra happy when Elwood said I was the most beautiful girl in the world. He is sure going to be a charmer!

Bit of brekkie, and the boys swim, whilst I book stuff. Noah tells me the pool was freezing …

Enkele reis naar Flagstaff

A travel blog entry by petervanhyfte

... van onze Belgische astronaut, Dirk Frimout is in deze muur gegrift. De reden van deze Wall Of Fame is omdat de NASA met hun astronauten hier op training kwamen om zo iets te leren over geologie. Na dit bezoek reden we verder richting Flagstaff. Bij het naderen van onze eindbestemming veranderde het landschap alweer; de bergwanden zijn hier begroeid met naaldbomen. Zo, einde van de dag. Slaap lekker (wij ...

New Mexico and Highway 66

A travel blog entry by travelingcircus

... for the moon missions. It was a great stop on the road to Gallup. Next stop was the Petrified Forest National Park. I must admit that I didn't want to stop here. I wanted to get to our overnight stop, cook dinner and get the kids settled. But Andrew wanted to stop and he was very persistent about it. So we stopped and it was truly amazing. The kids melted down towards the end but ...

That is one big hole in the ground

A travel blog entry by theskinners

... an asteroid travelling at 26,000 miles per hour and planet Earth approximately 50,000 years ago. Our friend Jim was here six months ago and raved about it. It was amazing. Far better than I thought it would be. On the way out Kim bought me a souvenir piece of the actual meteor that caused the crater. As we left the crater we stopped at a Route 66 landmark in Twin Arrows Arizona. It was the two ...

Zuni Pueblo

A travel blog entry by nanseaj

Being so close we decided to visit one more pueblo, the Zuni Pueblo. As we entered Zuni there were tents set up at the edge of town and an arts fair scheduled for the day with dancers and that intrigued us. Tribal members were selling their jewelry and pottery, there were a couple of local farm vendors, Navajo tacos, roasted corn and fresh baked bread, a pick-up truck filled with melons set ...

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