standin' on a corner in winslow arizona...

well once again, this is a very late post! but what can i say i really wanted to get home to visit, so i wasn't thinking about posting....
tony and i only having a few weeks left in arizona decided to try to hit a lot of sites in a little time...
driving through the lower elevation in the desert looked like we were drivin right off the earth.

first stop was going to be winslow, arizona. but we ended up stopping at meteor crater first. it is the only intact area where a meteor touched down. The place is used to study i don't konw what by NASA. The area of the crater is bigger than 20 football fields, hard to image with just a photo, but give it a try. We took some photos, ate a sandwhich and headed to our next destination.

winslow arizona...and when the eagles sang "winslow, arizona, such a fine site to see"
they were talking about the girl, not the city. it is as big as harrisville, MI and resembles a mix of taylor and the city that the three amigos had to save! Although there is an old flat bed ford on the corner along with a mural of a girl in a flat bed ford. it was cute.
We just stopped for a photo on the corner and some route 66 memorabilia ( and to use the bathroom.)

While we were driving to the petrified forest ( our third and final stop) we saw an antelope!!! A real antelope, the picture is bit fuzzy -those suckers are fast as hell) so we sang a round of " oh give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play." then i freaked out about hitting one ( i didn't ) but it blended in so well...

anyway we made it to the forest 15 minutes before it was closing, but since it is a national park, they can't forbid you drive the road that goes through it, but the fella' at the gate was like " just don't get outta your car after 7." i felt like i was in a bad horror movie...like all bad things happen after 7

we drove through most of the forest, it was soo cool- obviously there were standing trees but all over were falled trees that were totally petrified-huge pieces of them.
we drove a bit more to some Native American ruiins and i had to go to the bathroom really bad, so we stopped and got out. There were bathrooms near the area, and there were also petroglyphs!!! So cool. these pictures were carved into rocks some time before the 1200's...
it was amazing, not to mention all the energy there. It is in the middle of the desert so it was hot as hadies, but then you would walk into a freezing "i-need-a-sweater-" area. it was awesome. We drove with the moonroof open on the way back through the forest and felt the air going over out head, super hot and then freezing! SO COOL. it was a good way to get our kicks on route 66 before we head back home