Meteor Crater @ 8:30 AM, 5 July 2010
Arizona is known for two large holes in the ground. One is the one that appears in the license plate slogan and the other is Meteor Crater (a.k.a. Barringer Crater) about 3/4 of the way from Flagstaff to Winslow just south of I-40.
I picked, unfortunately, a poor day for sightseeing – it being a holiday weekend Monday and all. The trip up to the crater was care free on the interstates. I decided for the trip home to go take a ride through northeastern Arizona and wend my way back to Phoenix from the east.
Bad, bad idea. What should have taken not more than 3-4 hours ended up taking more like 7-8 because of the heavy, heavy, heavy nasty traffic headed back in to the valley from all points of the compass. Valuable learning experience – don’t do that again.
