Good news: Today we arrived at the Petrified Forest National Park. We had not planned for it but my friend Sam’s mother had mentioned about it and when we looked into it, we got excited and decided to make the extra drive. We would like to thank her because the trip was totally worth it.
At Petrified Forest we got to see a majestic view of the Painted Desert. At different times of day the desert would be a different color depending on where the sun was shining. It was very nice.
After that we went on a walk with a ranger at Puerco Pueblo. He showed us the petroglyphs in a section of the park. It was cool to see the Native American art.
The horrible thing is that some people carved their names over some of the art. They drive me insane.
Someone in our group had a good eye for spotting things and on our walk, curled up on top of a tree, he showed us a porcupine:
We then headed towards the exit, but not before going to see the real petrified forest. It is so cool because to make the petrified wood a solution of volcanic ash and water must mix.
Sometimes other minerals mix in and cause the rock to become another color i.e: when petrified wood is red it means that iron mixed into the solution.
We started heading towards Las Vegas and made a quick stop in Winslow. In Winslow they have a very famous hotel called La Posada. Many famous people stayed there including Shirley Temple, Frank Sinatra, Albert Einstein, and many more. We quickly checked out the Frank Sinatra Suite and the Shirley Temple Room.
Later that day we arrived in Flagstaff and decided that we would spend the night there. We had dinner at a very good restraunt called El Charro. It had very good food and I would strongly suggest it specially to end a long day.
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