On the Road Again...

After a long delay waiting to get our satellite antenna repaired, we finally hit the road on Saturday 3/13. It was another white-knuckle drive. The wind was blowing so hard it ripped our patio awning to shreds, but we finally made it to Meteor Crater RV Park about 30 miles east of Flagstaff.






On Sunday morning we went to see the crater, the world's best-preserved and first-proven meteorite impact site. The crater is a mile across, 2.4 miles in circumference, and over 550 feet deep - that's as tall as a 60-story building! The topography so closely resembles earth's moon & other planets that NASA designated it as an official training site for Apollo Astronauts.




It happened some 50,000 years ago - A meteor ripped through the skies at about 40,000 mph and smashed into the high plains of Arizona. Within a few seconds, the force of resulting massive explosion threw millions of tons of rock over the surrounding area causing a shock-wave of hurricane force out in every direction, creating destruction for miles.