A day of driving,and sight-seeing

Here we are , Taavi closing up the trailer to get going in the morning .
Great to get some good help from your kids at this age , no ?
We stayed 2 nights  in Flagstaff , and saw volcanoes , ancient native dwellings ,
visited the very touristic town  of  Sedona , and swam  down a rocky slide
 at Slide Rock State Park ,which  was extremely  refreshing (yes,it's warm here)
 and a novelty for me!

Walnut Canyon , just outside  Flagstaff .
The native people lived in improved caves (or overhangs)
here many hundred years ago ,and it is now a state park.
The photo below shows what their mountain home looked like form a distance.

If you look really carefully you can see the openings of the cave-dwellings.
Far below there used to be a river for their fresh -water need , and otherwise
they managed some gardening on these steep hills .Impressive!

written by Lena and continued awesomely and epicly and uber cool-isly by Loki

Ok, stop lookin' at the Pueblos  (cliff dwellings, if you can even see them),and take a niiiiiiiice looooooook at the ROCK.
 Notice anything different? Look at the lines in the rock, well surprisingly those lines were actually formed by air currents! Weird right?
 Photo not taken by me, I would not use that one , it's not close enough, she should have used my photo instead, it was superb!!!!

On our way east today we passed through Petrified Forest National Park .
I didn't know what to expect , and was happy we did this detour .
From the side they look  like a rusty log , but as you can see below they have
all kinds of  colors depending on their mineral content , stunning!

Can you believe it's  even wood???

                              

And some desert wildflower in what was a patch of Badlands within
the Petrified Forest.

The rest of the day was a long day of driving which ended at Walmart in a town called Grant .
Tomorrow we'll be in Santa Fe , but for now we're camping next to some truckers
while hearing the distant sound of the highway.
It's really not too bad to spend the night at Walmart , we got some last
minute essentials for our dinner ,and no paper work needed before you tuck in for the night....
Good night !