The morning started early today. We were up and around at 6:30 a.m. Left the park at 7:40 to head east. It is still a long drive home, but headed in that direction.

We arrived in Holbrook, Arizona at 12:30. That way we could see the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert. It is really something how those trees turned into rock.

We started the day at an elevation of 600. At Flagstaff we reached an elevation of 7335. Told "red" (our truck) he was doing very well. We are at 5085 now.

Tomorrow we will get into New Mexico. While in Arizona we have stayed on Mountain Standard Time (they don't change to daylight time). When we reach New Mexico we will then go on Mountain Daylight Time. So we will change time tomorrow. So we will only be 2 hours different.

Very nice drive thru the National Petrified Forest and The Painted Desert. This was a 28 mile drive. Very interesting.

Petrified wood. The change is amazing.

These petrified wood was actually found like this and in the exact same place they are now. This was a tree and was broken from being under ground.

The inside of one of the Petrified Wood (also known as rock).

This and the next pictures are from the painted desert. (more to come). We started this driving tour in the beautiful sunshine, but it clouded up. We seen more color here than it is showing on the pictures.

This is writings (pictures) from many many years ago (a lot of years ago). They drew pictures instead of writing.

The utility poles you see are the ones that ran along side route 66 years ago. Now you have I-40 running in some of the areas that was route 66. The campground we are in tonight is on the original route 66.

A map of Route 66. Different times during this trip we were either on or seen the original route 66.

This and the next two pictures are more from the Painted Desert. It was so pretty

Monday, March 28, 2011

We took Jr & Luanne back to Las Vegas Airport. We all had a very nice time seeing the sights around the area. Their airplane was to take off at 4:35 p.m., before they left home it was changed to 5:05 p.m., and today she received a phone call it was changed to 6:00 p.m. I checked later and seen it was at 6:09 that it actually took off. They were suppose to land in Detroit at 12:49 a.m. Should hear from them when they arrive home. They couldn't use Luanne's cell phone after landing becuase it was in the back seat of our truck. Such a shame she won't have it until we get home.

We have enjoyed seeing different wild animals. Today on our way to the airport Luanne said she sees dahl sheep. Sure enough we pulled off the road and backed up to observe six dahl sheep. The next two pictures shows those sheep.

Tomorrow morning we will be leaving Bullhead City and heading east to Holbrook, Arizona. Stopping there to see Petrified Forest and Painted Desert.