Arizona

We left Texas and continued west through New Mexico until we came to Petrified Forest National Park. We had visited this park in January of 2007, but only the northern part. 

This time we turned and drove south to the Rainbow Museum, where we checked out the exhibits and watched a film about the park. From there we drove west to Flagstaff, where we stayed Thursday night.

Friday morning night we visited Walnut Canyon National Monument. This park preserves the landscape where native people built homes in the cliffs of the canyon and farmed along the rim. We checked out the exhibits at the visitor center and watched the film about canyon, then walked a short trail out to the canyon’s edge.