December 1st, 2008 Monday 61* sunny
Didn't make our destination of Kingman today as planned due to an unforseen incident. We had some fuel spill from the tank and coated the underside of the truck and rv WHAT A MESS! We sat in Winslow Arizona (yes there was a song about that place :) The Eagles sang it) waiting at a truck wash to get the bottom powerwashed to get it all off. Thankfully we don't have TOO much smell inside. I think I have some real cleaning to do when I get home!
Anyway we still made 400 miles today and we passed through an area we had been through before where there is a huge lava field from a volcano, its called Bandera volcano and here is a link Bandera Volcana . Lava stretches for over 20 miles and is all pushed up in piles along route 40. Really cool to see.
We attempted to stop at Meteor Crater but was too late in the day, it is only 6 miles off of the highway and we drove back to it, but it costs $15 per person and we didn't want to spend $30 for an hour. So it will be scheduled on our next trip this way and we will also hit the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert and Petrified Forrest again.
This little town of Seligman is best known for being the Historic birthplace of Route 66. A barber in town hated to see the town and the route die so he started a campaign and got all these owners together to save the historic route. Here is a link There is a restaurant in town called Snowcaps and there are some old cars there. Those old cars are the basis of the cartoon "Cars" as it was this area the movie revolved around apparently. I did not see the movie.
We are slowly getting warmer, today it was in the 60's and suppose to get down to 30 tonight. Back home they got a coating of snow. We did see some mountains again today snow covered and hit an elevation of 7200 feet!
HEY PATTI! We found trees in Arizona! Of all places Flagstaff!! LOL
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