Today, Wednesday we woke up to a light dusting of snow in New Mexico. We took off to Arizona to visit Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert which kind of surrounds it. We took the 28 mile route which winds around inside the park. It is very colorful and we saw a lot of petrified logs and parts of logs. Millions of years ago the whole area was flooded with water and covered the trees. Silica from the water saturated the trees and turned the wood fiber into minerals and stone. There are no trees standing now just pieces of tree logs. For years people just took the petrified wood and made souvenirs and really scavenged the area. It was finally made a national park and is now a criminal offense to take anything out of the park. Tomorrow we head towards Flagstaf and then maybe camp one more night and return home Friday morning.
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