Bill and Helen's RV travel blog

  Tuesday 10-8-24  Day 29 Boondocking at Crystal Forest Gift Shop Petrified Forest National Park (inc Painted Desert) We visited the Agate Bridge, a petrified log bridge (reinforced with concrete several decades ago) Newspaper Rock (that has hundreds of petroglyphs etched on it)   A view above through binoculars And the painted desert... Petrified Forest N.P. does not have the amazing views and gorgeous forests etc.  It is very understated landscapes with little vegetation.   Not many visitors but the natural and lengthy process of trees turning into petrified wood (in rock form) is amazing!  The end product is gorgeous and laying around on the ground with trails running through it. The area was full of dinosaurs at one time as well...now on display at the Rainbow Forest Visitors Center Taking the Giant Logs and Long Logs Trails…. Been attracting smart people like us for decades! We stood on the same spot!   Drove back to hook up the trailer a...

Monday 10-7-24  Day 28   Departed Grand Canyon camper village, Tusayan AZ 9:15 AM. Took Hwy 64 to I40 east/Historic Route 66 to state Hwy 180. Stopped in Flagstaff AZ for gas. Then visited the Flagstaff City library to talk to the Florida law office about corrections to real estate documents for a property we're selling, and then downloaded and printed the legal docs.  I admired a cute Halloween witch decoration on the Information desk and the Library staff gave me a kit to make my own, mostly from a paperback book!  (H was soooo happy!) Flagstaff looked like a really nice little town, population of approx 76,000.   Headed out on I40 East/Historic Route 66 to Meteor Crater.   Out in the middle of nowhere in northern Arizona.  50,000 years ago an iron-nickel meteorite hurtling at about 26,000 MPH struck the rocky plain with an force greater than 20 million tons of TNT!   There was a 6' dummy in a space suit at the bottom of the crat...