Back on Highway 264 and headed toward the Hopi Reserve. Not much selling of Indian Art was in evidence, but we did see an old Hopi woman beside the road herding some angora goats. Since I had a herd of Angoras back home in BC, I stopped the car to talk to the woman and I helped her herd her goats inside a fenced area.
At 87 we turned south and drove toward Winslow, Arizona. We stopped at a painted desert county park and took some pictures. We found a room at a Super 8 motel for $35 then drove out the interstate to the Meteor Crater arriving at 5:00 and found it closed, so turned around and drove back to Winslow, and ate at Taco Bell. Mad Cow Disease is making headlines again in Britain.
Mar. 23/96 Fri. Flagstaff.
We drove east on Interstate 40 to Holbrook, then took 180 to the South entrance of the Petrified Forest. It was quite interesting to see the huge sections of rock that were once trees. We especially enjoyed reading the sign showing the letters that were sent by people who were returning pieces of petrified wood that they had stolen from the park.
From the Petrified forest we drove I-40 west back past Winslow. We ate at a terribly windy rest stop, then drove on to the Meteor Crater. We were a little taken aback by the $8 admission fee, because we had assumed it was a National Monument. We paid the fee, went inside, and took a guided tour along the crater’s rim.
It was outrageously windy walking along the rim. The crater was enormous, 570 ft. deep and 4,100 ft across the rim. It was quite amazing, and we could only imagine what the explosion must have been like when the meteor slammed into Earth. The history of the many failed attempts to dig down to find and mine the meteor was fascinating.
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