Meteor Crater, Eagles and New Mexico…..

Whilst everyone is recovering from their Xmas and New Year celebrations, I will go on from where I left off prior to my Christmas blog post.

Sedona was the blog post before the Christmas interlude………..and from there we went toward the state of New Mexico. We stopped on the way to have a look at one of America’s most well preserved Meteor crater.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crater wasn’t far from Flagstaff in the direction we were headed, so we stopped in to educate ourselves a little more on the history of this amazing event. As with all American exhibits, this one was well set out and recorded the information and history really well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We looked around the exhibits, watched the movie, then saw the crater itself. Rather than go into details myself, Jai has written a brief comparison between this American crater and one in Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We went to visit the Meteor Crater in Southern America and I decided to compare it to the Wolfe Creek Meteor Crater in Australia.

The Meteor crater in America that our family visited was made by an iron nickel meteorite 50,000 years ago.The meteorite that hit earth was travelling at approximately 26,000 m/h and the crater it formed is now 170 m deep and 1200 m across in diameter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

America’s Meteor Crater is recorded as the best preserved impact site on earth!

 

 

 

 

 

 

By comparison, the Australian Wolfe Creek Meteor Crater was created 300,000 years ago by a meteor the mass of 50,000 tonne. The crater it left behind is approximately 870 metres in diameter and 50 m deep. It is recorded as the “second” best preserved meteor site in the world!

By Jai

 

 

 

 

 

 

We left the crater and travelled through desert. Eventually we hit upon a small town called Winsow, where our friends, Bill and Joan, had said there was a special corner dedicated to the band, The Eagles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently the Eagles wrote a song called Standin’ on the Corner. This Park area was dedicated on Sept 11, 1999 as a tribute to this memorable song of the 1970’s that made Winslow, Arizona, a town to sing about on the famous Route 66. Bill and Joan said that was the only part of the town worth looking at, and I’d have to say they were right….but it was an attraction worth seeing, especially if you love the band, the Eagles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We drove on through passing the border of Arizona into the new state of new Mexico.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stayed in a KOA not too far from the border in New Mexico. The people who ran it were really lovely and even cooked us some breakfast the next morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We drove onto Albuquerque where we had planned to meet up with an old friend of Scott’s who he met when travelling South America many years ago. As it was Thanksgiving, (and a very big event in America), we didn’t want to interrupt Donna’s family celebrations. So we just chilled at a park, then camped in Alburquerque KOA and caught up on household chores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next blog post has us meeting up with Donna and her gorgeous family. Until then…..