Off into the sunset …

We had one final destination planned for the day, which necessitated hastily covering the 220km from Petrified Forest back to Wupatki National Monument, north of Flagstaff. At the northern end of the same reserve that contains Sunset Crater, the Wupatki National Monument contains a number of ancient Native American ruins.

The most elaborate of these is a […]

Our main reason for heading towards Albuquerque (and not getting there) was to visit the Petrified Forest National Park. As the photos show, this is a bizarre landscape of treeless eroded sedimentary mesas and, scattered in different sections of the park, there are big logs of petrified wood, some still as full trees and others broken […]

On the second of our holiday days, we jumped in the car early and headed eastwards. It became a bit of a standing joke between Noleine and I to suggest we were going to Albuquerque, because it’s such a querque name (and the I40/Route 66 on which we were travelling does lead there eventually). As we […]