Road Trippin’: Albuquerque to Flagstaff

Three weeks from today I’ll be driving from Albuquerque to Flagstaff. I have it in my head that this will be the prettiest segment of the road trip since I’m taking a slight detour to cut through the petrified forest and the painted desert.

I used to go to Arizona as a kid to visit my Uncle Alex. I’ve been to Old Tucson, Sedona, and the Grand Canyon but the petrified forest and the painted desert were two places I never got to visit because they were always kind of out of the way. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited to finally get to check them out.

There are other great sites along the way, but I have the meteor crater pretty high on my list of must-sees. Then there’s “Standing on the Corner” Park in Winslow, Arizona that celebrates the Eagle’s catchy pop-tune “Take it Easy.”

I’m staying at a hostel in Flagstaff, my final hostel of the trip, I believe.

Labels: roadtrip, travel

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