Travel Photojournal: Petrified Forest

At our last major stop of the trip, it's starting to get cold, we're starting to get tired, and oh, look! Is that rain in the distance?

 
 
 
 
 
 
Fortunately, we're still able to end on a high note.

We're taking brief stops to see the sights in Oklahoma City and visit with my folks in Arkansas, but then we're headed home!

Travel Photojournal: Meteor Crater

On the way to the Petrified Forest, we stopped at Meteor Crater:

 
 
 
 
Willow said that the crater wasn't as big as she'd thought it would be. I know that it's not much compared to the Grand Canyon, sure, but goodness! How much bigger do you need a mile-wide meteor crater to be, silly girl?

Next, we drive on to the Petrified Forest.

Travel Photojournal: Lowell Observatory

We walked in the footsteps of astronomers, looked up through the telescope that discovered Pluto, and ran the length of the solar system:

 
Then we bought one pumpkin spice latte and two kiddie hot chocolates and headed back to our cheap motel, where the girls ate cheddar bunnies and journaled about their day:

I thought that this picture was going to turn out to be a drawing of Clyde Tombaugh's Pluto telescope, but nope.

It's our motel room. Again.

Next up, we tromp through the Petrified Forest, taking only pictures, leaving only tromp-marks!

Travel Photojournal: The Grand Canyon

I was worried that the kids wouldn't like the Grand Canyon:

 

  

  

  

  

 

  

They liked it.

Next, we tour Lowell Observatory!

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Travel Photojournal: Bakersfield, California, to the Grand Canyon

Southeast through California into Arizona:

There are a lot of windmills.

Next, we see the Grand Canyon!

Travel Photojournal: Bean Hollow State Beach

The girls and I are on our wild and unruly adventure!

We make our pilgrimage to Bean Hollow State Beach, otherwise known as Pebble Beach, every time we visit the San Jose area. But we've never before been in November:

 

 

 It's still pretty great.

Next up, we're driving to the Grand Canyon!

A Statement of Truth

Chad is rad:

Am I right or am I right?