Driving to Beautiful Verde Valley, AZ

We arrived last night at Zane Grey RV Park in Camp Verde, AZ. For the first time in a while, we are surrounded by trees and there is a lovely creek on the campgrounds property.

Our drive here from Albuquerque had a few diversions. We stopped in a really nice, friendly campground in Holbrook, AZ for two nights and spent a day in the incredible Petrified Forest National Park (PFNP). The PFNP is more like two parks in one - the northern half is the Painted Desert whereas the southern half has many areas with petrified logs. Also included in the park, were ruins of the original inhabitants more than a millennium ago as well as outstanding petroglyphs. So, there was really a lot to see and photograph. We'll add lots of photos to this post as the photos will save me a thousand words of typing.

As we headed toward Flagstaff, we stopped at Meteor Crater. You sci-fi movie fans may remember that the ending of the movie "Starman" was filmed there. It's the size of 20 football fields and is where a 150 foot meteor struck the earth millions of years ago. The museum had very interesting meteor and crater exhibits.

A smaller item we saw in the garden, a the crater, was a lizard that appeared to change colors as we watched move from the plant to a rock. In the parking lot, we met the transport driver of a Seattle hydroplane. The driver of the hydroplane, he was hauling, is Kayleigh Perkins who, in Aug, was the first woman to be the unlimited light Seafair champion!

We then drove on through Flagstaff to our current campground in Camp Verde - about 30 minutes from Sedona. We plan to spend a week, here, relaxing and touring the area. First task is to grocery shop after we send out this post.