Flagstaff, Arizona

I can take pictures all day of these mountains in New Mexico but they don't do it justice.  So I quit taking pictures.  We would come over a rise and both go "WOW!"  It's breath-taking here.

We began passing what looks like lava flow.  There are volcanoes here but not active.  We keep seeing signs to watch for elk, which is different.  On both sides of I-40 are train tracks.  We have never seen so many trains as we have today--nor as long as these trains.  Each train has way over 100 cars.  As we drove through the Petrified Forest National Park area, it told of an AM station to tune in to hear about the forest.  So I did.  It was all in Indian language, probably Navajo, since we're in Navajo country.

It's strange how just a mile down the road, the scenery can change so drastically.  We've been seeing desert with small shrubs scattered about and lots and lots of mountains--every direction you look.  The closer we got to Flagstaff, we began to see lots of pine trees.  It was beautiful.  Flagstaff has some of the prettiest scenery we've seen. We stayed at Black Bart's RV Park.  It was a very nice park.  It even had a steak house, that was so popular they even had bus loads of people who came in every day. 

We stayed here two days and ran around looking at Indian ruins and mountain volcanoes.

This was a nice view.