La Posada Hotel
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Last night we stayed at La Posada Hotel. It's a former Harvey House Hotel, which was a popular railroad hotel and restaurant chain in the early part of the 20th century. We stayed in the "Tom Fordもっと詳しく
"Standin' on a Corner"
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
This morning, we toured downtown Winslow and saw the corner made famous by the song "Take it Easy". The town has setup a public park to commemorate the song.
La Posada Walking Tour
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
We then returned to La Posada to do a walking tour through the hotel.
Meteor Crater
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
From Winslow, we backtracked a few miles to see the Meteor Crater. It's the most well-preserved meteor impact site in the world. The meteorite hit about 50,000 years ago. During the 1960s, astronautsもっと詳しく
Petrified Forest National Park
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
We finished the day with a visit to the Petrified Forest. We hiked on the long logs trail and visited the Agate House. The house is a reproduction of structures built by early pueblo cultures. Theもっと詳しく
Route 66 Highlights
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
A few highlights from today's drive on the route.
Petrified Forest National Park Fauna
2016年6月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
A few of the flowers located in the park.
9-11 Remembrance Garden
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Before leaving town we stopped at the 9-11 Remembrance Garden. New York entrusted two of the beams from the World Trade Towers to Winslow.
Zuni Indian Dancers
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After we left the park we traveled to Gallup. Nightly, Indian dancers perform in the courthouse square.
Crystal Forest
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We returned to the Petrified Forest National Park to continue our tour of the park. We stopped in Crystal Forest. It's named for the crystals that formed in the petrified wood on the site.
Agate Log
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
One of the petrified logs fell over a small river. Over the years the water has eroded that ground underneath causing the log to become a bridge.
Blue Mesa
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We then hiked through a "forest" of blue mesas.
Newspaper Rock
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Newspaper Rock holds petroglyphs from the puebloans, who lived in the area. Some are nearly 2,000 years old.
Puerco Pueblo
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
At Puerco Pueblo, we saw the remains of Puebloan homes that were occupied between 1250-1380.
Route 66
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
When Route 66 was still in its heyday it traveled through the park. An old Studebaker now marks the route's location.
Painted Desert Inn
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
At the north end of the park is the Painted Desert Inn. Murals inside the inn were painted as part of a WPA project in the 30s.
Painted Desert
2016年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Before leaving the park we traveled through the Painted Desert.
Four Corners Monument
2016年6月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
In the morning we traveled to the Four Corners Monument and stood in four states at once.
Mesa Verde National Park
2016年6月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
In the afternoon we traveled to Mesa Verde. There, we saw the remains of the Puebloans that lived in the area thousands of years ago.
Mesa Verde National Park
2016年6月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Before leaving the park a family of deer crossed our path.
McKinley County Courthouse Mural
2016年6月16日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
We started the day with a visit to the McKinley County Courthouse. A WPA era mural adorns the courtroom.
Navajo Codetalkers' Room
2016年6月16日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Before leaving Gallup we visited a display on Navajo Codetalkers.
El Morro National Monument
2016年6月16日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
From Gallup we continued on Route 66, before taking a sidetrip to El Morro National Monument. There we hiked inscription trail. Inscriptions from Spanish conquistadors and Anglo emigrants, as well asもっと詳しく
El Malpais National Monument
2016年6月16日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Before continuing on Route 66, we hiked the El Calderon trail at El Malpais National Monument. While on the trail we saw several caves that we formed by volcanic eruptions about 2,000-3,000 years ago.
Albuquerque: Downtown to Old Town
2016年6月17日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
Today we were in Albuquerque. We took a walking tour from the plaza in the city's newer downtown area to Albuquerque's Old Town.