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(1) photos taken with Cannon... |
Today: departing Kingman & visiting Meteor Crater & Petrefied Forest & stopping in Albuquerque...
...continuing east on I40... w/sun at aggrivating height... |
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... into the mountains... |
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... more mountains coming... |
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... yup... more mountains... |
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... encountered snow as we were coming up on Devil Dog Road... |
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... yup... snow in dem der hills above Williams, AZ in the high country about 50 miles south of the Grand Canyon... |
... FINALLY... back in "Cracker Barrel country"... GREAT home cooked style meals!!!
... there are none in California... a test restaurant is being opened in Nevada, and, if successful then California will be next... |
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(2) it's out here some where... |
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... oh baby oh baby oh baby oh... |
(3) 1st trading post... Jack Rabbit Trading Post...
... looking for jackalope, snake skin, puttycat... |
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... WHOOOAAAAH... ROCK SHOP... apparently there's a lot of petrified wood to be found which is NOT in the national park... |
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... we picked a piece from this pile... see it???... |
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(4) we're out here in the middle of nowhere... |
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... really out here in the middle of nowhere... |
... this forest was burried under thousands of feet of sediment...
... time passed... the forest fossilized...
... time passed... the sediment eroded away exposing the petrified wood...
... erosion continues exposing more all the time... |
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... it's everywhere it's everywhere... |
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(7) photos taken with Nikon... |
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The Holsinger Meteorite is the largest discovered fragment of the 150-foot (45-meter) meteor that created Meteor Crater; 1406 pounds!!!... |
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... another panoramic view... zoomed in... |
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... now I ask you... who would spend time stacking rocks???... |
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... tree bridge (concrete added to support it in 1930 or so)... |
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... I've heard tell that crows are Indians reincarnated... |
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... this place is immense... |
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... Petrified Forest National Park newspaper... (nps.gov/pefo) |
MOTEL: Howard Johnson Albuquerque Midtown
900 Medical Arts Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 87102 505.243.5693
great breakfast area:
website: hojoabqmidtown.com
*** $42.02 (tax included) *** Booking number: 808479003 *** PIN code: 2492 ***
hojoabqmidtown.com RSVP confirmation: doc, www, email
hot breakfast is included.
REVIEW: Clean, economical, most satisfactory.
Leisure trip / Couple / King Room - Non-Smoking / Stayed 1 night
What could have been better? Wi-Fi workd but was slooooow
Most important to us is cleanliness - A+ on that, next in importance is the price,
hard king bed was great for our backs, and other things we appreciated were breakfast
included in room rate, cable TV, free Wi-Fi and location; would stay here again.
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Dinner at Cracker Barrel:
S: pecan catfish,broccoli,sweet potatoe,rasberry ice tea
R: grilled chicken salad, lemonade
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breakfast at Howard Johson the next morning:
S: hash browns,pancake,French toast,OJ,coffee
R: hash browns,pancake,French toast,OJ w/cranberry,coffee
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