Get your kicks on route 66

Yesterday we drove down to Flagstaff as the first part of our Grand Canyon tour. We went via the Hoover dam, which was a really interesting experience. They are upgrading the road at the moment, and that means building a straight one right through the middle, so we got to see how they build a really large bridge!


Today we headed out on the historic route 66 to see the sights.

We started at the Petrified Forest, which is a forest full of wood that has been petrified over millions of years, and now look like crystals. the landscape was amazing and the painted sand was the most spectacular thing i had seen all day :)

Next we headed onto the Canyon de Chelly, which is a canyon (if you hadn't of guessed) which is pretty big, but not as big as the Grand Canyon.

We drove the wrong way around the canyon, so although we got to see some cool sights, it did not take us in the direction we required so we had to turn around and come back! whoops.

Onwards to Monument Valley.... we drove through Monument Valley at the end of a very long day.
But what an amazing place. The scenery we had had all day was so varying and amazing. what both me a Tony could not believe was how much of America is not inhabited. There are so many people crammed into the city's that you would think that there was not enough space for everyone, but when you get out into the country, you realise that there is plenty of space, miles and miles of it in fact! America is a huge country, that is one thing we have learnt on this trip!.

We headed back to Flagstaff tired and aware that we had driven something like 500 miles (anyone feel a song coming on?) for a pint of Cider and an early night