The headings for these posts seem totally unreal to me. Whoever would have thought I would be lucky enough to visit such places? Last night we treated ourselves to a stay in a Little America Hotel in Flagstaff. It was simply lovely. Couldn't fault it at all. The grounds of the hotel had trails you could do so we followed one last night.
The trail was a couple of miles long and at the end of the day, this rabbit was having his supper. Didn't seem nervous either.
Found a little cabin in the wood. The hotel is clearly gearing up for Christmas in fact there was a workshop this week where you could work with Santa's elves and make toys. How cool is that?
This huge tree had collapsed because of a huge wildfire that struck the area some years ago. The hotel and surrounding buildings were evacuated.
Watched the beautiful sunset on our evening walk.
THE METEOR CRATER
We drove today to see this amazing sight which is between Winona and Winslow and it really was awesome in the true sense of the word. This is part of the meteor itself.
The crater is HUGE and about 700 feet deep and 4,000 feet across. It's in a vast area of flatland so is very impressive.
You can get a tour round part of the top of the wall and you can really understand that the first man to find it (well recorded anyway) thought it might be volcanic.
There have been so many fascinating things to see along Route 66. Wigwams, Indian stores, and strangely enough - models of dinosaurs are very common!! It's been wonderful to drive so much of the original Mother Road I have to say. However, our next port of call was the Painted Desert. Again, I run out of superlatives to describe this. Here are some pictures of this incredible place.
We were just about arriving in Gallup for our hotel when we got perhaps the best news of today. Our house in Temecula is finally sold! OK, so that means we are now homeless, but also that we are free to buy a new house when we reach Texas. It's a real weight off my mind I can tell you. Goodnight all.
Found a little cabin in the wood. The hotel is clearly gearing up for Christmas in fact there was a workshop this week where you could work with Santa's elves and make toys. How cool is that?
Watched the beautiful sunset on our evening walk.
We drove today to see this amazing sight which is between Winona and Winslow and it really was awesome in the true sense of the word. This is part of the meteor itself.
The crater is HUGE and about 700 feet deep and 4,000 feet across. It's in a vast area of flatland so is very impressive.
You can get a tour round part of the top of the wall and you can really understand that the first man to find it (well recorded anyway) thought it might be volcanic.
There have been so many fascinating things to see along Route 66. Wigwams, Indian stores, and strangely enough - models of dinosaurs are very common!! It's been wonderful to drive so much of the original Mother Road I have to say. However, our next port of call was the Painted Desert. Again, I run out of superlatives to describe this. Here are some pictures of this incredible place.
We were just about arriving in Gallup for our hotel when we got perhaps the best news of today. Our house in Temecula is finally sold! OK, so that means we are now homeless, but also that we are free to buy a new house when we reach Texas. It's a real weight off my mind I can tell you. Goodnight all.
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