*** 31st Aug @ 19:03
We are here in the Sequoia National Park, took so much longer to get here. We didn’t realize that we would be climbing, climbing and climbing to over 6000 ft elevation while doing it on the very winding, cliff dropping road. Lets just say that I rarely looked down…..icks. But it was beautiful.
Our campsite.
One of our 1st views.
We just had a good dinner, have no internet, no biggie….so decided to work on our blog writings. We have a fire going, of course, we have a 2 families camping together….must be about 6-8 kids….right in our view, and a group of about 5-6 men camping to the side of us.

We are only allowed to run the generators between 8am-11am and 5pm-8pm, so we have it going for the fridge and charging everything up. There are no hook ups, but that was really to be expected. We were informed that we have to sleep with the windows closed unless we moved all of our food into the bear box next to the site! =)
We have 100ft tall trees all around and got to see a couple of the monster sequoia trees…..those were great. But that was just driving by. Tomorrow we are going to drive the RV to the next stop up so we can take a shuttle to deep forest. The shuttle doesn’t pick up from the camp site. Afterwards we’ll be back to the campsite for one more night.
But I’m going out of order here……….
After White Sands it was on to the Petrified Forrest and the Painted Desert. WOW! WOW! It was gorgeous. For one, I didn’t know that it was one and the same. The colors were a lot more ranged then I thought it could be. The Petrified Forrest reminded me of colored glass. Then the sky was stunning with its clouds formations and reflection of colors off of the cliffs and rocks near by. Words really don’t do it justice….so here are a ton of pictures. =)
That is the shadow of the cliff on the other side of the road…..so cool.
Then it was one to the next stop, which was the Meteor Crater. Well, if we were going to make it Flagstaff for the evening, we weren’t able to stop. So we found a RV park right outside of the crater and canceled the other one.
That park was a story and a half. We called, booked it and then arrived 30mins after they closed their check in!?! Luckily they had security. Took about 20mins of yelling to find him……annoying, but we got in. And it was a really nice park. They even had very soft grass right outside of their bathrooms…..I had to take my shoes off and put my feet into it! I haven’t felt that since Indiana…..sure in hell didn’t get that in Florida.
That park was right out side of the crater. Which we think it is privately owned for the pricing it had. National and state parks aren’t that pricey.
The Meteor Crater was created about 50,000 yrs ago, by a piece of astro that was about 150ft wide, weighed several thousand tons and hit the earth at 26,000mph. To walk the rim, it would be 2.25 miles around. It didn’t look that big….until you learn that they put a cut out of a 6ft tall astronaut on the bottom, that you couldn’t see without binoculars or a great zoom……..there was a rock, that didn’t look that far or that big, but it was as big as a 2 story house, that is just to give you an idea how big it was.
That little spot in the middle of the crater is where the cut out of a 6ft tall astronaut is.
Harold going down to take a few more pictures.