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- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:01
- 🌙 19 °C
- Høyde: 4 839 ft
Forente staterWinslow35°1’18” N 110°41’46” W
La Posada Hotel
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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 FordLes mer
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- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:07
- 🌙 18 °C
- Høyde: 4 849 ft
- Forente staterWinslow35°1’27” N 110°41’50” W
"Standin' on a Corner"
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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.
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- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:11
- 🌙 18 °C
- Høyde: 4 849 ft
- Forente staterWinslow35°1’27” N 110°41’50” W
La Posada Walking Tour
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
We then returned to La Posada to do a walking tour through the hotel.
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- Dag 18
- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:21
- 🌙 13 °C
- Høyde: 5 440 ft
- Forente staterClounch Well35°4’24” N 111°1’57” W
Meteor Crater
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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, astronautsLes mer
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- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:30
- 🌙 16 °C
- Høyde: 5 577 ft
- Forente staterJasper Forest34°53’31” N 109°48’5” W
Petrified Forest National Park
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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. TheLes mer
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- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:33
- 🌙 18 °C
- Høyde: 4 957 ft
- Forente staterJoseph City Wash34°56’60” N 110°21’24” W
Route 66 Highlights
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
A few highlights from today's drive on the route.
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- mandag 13. juni 2016 22:36
- 🌙 16 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Petrified Forest National Park Fauna
13. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
A few of the flowers located in the park.
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- Dag 19
- tirsdag 14. juni 2016 05:15
- ☀️ 11 °C
- Høyde: 4 823 ft
- Forente staterWinslow35°2’19” N 110°42’12” W
9-11 Remembrance Garden
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- Dag 19
- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Høyde: 6 417 ft
- Forente staterNavajo Indian Reservation Historical Marker35°51’34” N 108°45’22” W
Zuni Indian Dancers
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After we left the park we traveled to Gallup. Nightly, Indian dancers perform in the courthouse square.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Crystal Forest
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Agate Log
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Blue Mesa
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We then hiked through a "forest" of blue mesas.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Newspaper Rock
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Newspaper Rock holds petroglyphs from the puebloans, who lived in the area. Some are nearly 2,000 years old.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Puerco Pueblo
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
At Puerco Pueblo, we saw the remains of Puebloan homes that were occupied between 1250-1380.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Route 66
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
When Route 66 was still in its heyday it traveled through the park. An old Studebaker now marks the route's location.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 384 ft
- Forente staterDry Creek Tanks34°54’36” N 109°48’24” W
Painted Desert Inn
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- tirsdag 14. juni 2016
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 5 797 ft
- Forente staterTiponi Point35°3’57” N 109°46’54” W
Painted Desert
14. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Before leaving the park we traveled through the Painted Desert.
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- Dag 20
- onsdag 15. juni 2016
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Høyde: 4 669 ft
- Forente staterBeclabito Chapter36°59’42” N 109°3’29” W
Four Corners Monument
15. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
In the morning we traveled to the Four Corners Monument and stood in four states at once.
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- onsdag 15. juni 2016
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Høyde: 6 926 ft
- Forente staterSpruce Tree Canyon37°11’2” N 108°29’19” W
Mesa Verde National Park
15. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- onsdag 15. juni 2016
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Høyde: 6 926 ft
- Forente staterSpruce Tree Canyon37°11’2” N 108°29’19” W
Mesa Verde National Park
15. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Before leaving the park a family of deer crossed our path.
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- torsdag 16. juni 2016 21:42
- 🌙 19 °C
- Høyde: 6 417 ft
- Forente staterNavajo Indian Reservation Historical Marker35°51’34” N 108°45’22” W
McKinley County Courthouse Mural
16. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
We started the day with a visit to the McKinley County Courthouse. A WPA era mural adorns the courtroom.
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- torsdag 16. juni 2016 21:46
- 🌙 17 °C
- Høyde: 6 526 ft
- Forente staterGallup Indian Medical Center Library35°31’41” N 108°44’33” W
Navajo Codetalkers' Room
16. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Before leaving Gallup we visited a display on Navajo Codetalkers.
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- torsdag 16. juni 2016 21:59
- 🌙 18 °C
- Høyde: 7 172 ft
- Forente staterEl Morro National Monument35°2’23” N 108°20’42” W
El Morro National Monument
16. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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 asLes mer
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- torsdag 16. juni 2016 22:05
- 🌙 18 °C
- Høyde: 7 070 ft
- Forente staterArrosa Ranch Water Well34°56’32” N 107°59’22” W
El Malpais National Monument
16. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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.
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- fredag 17. juni 2016 21:04
- 🌙 28 °C
- Høyde: 4 980 ft
- Forente staterLovelace Medical Library35°5’4” N 106°39’4” W
Albuquerque: Downtown to Old Town
17. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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.