We drove about 80 miles from Cameron to a little east of Winslow Saturday. We arrived at Meteor Crater RV Park about 11am after lots of fun huffing & puffing up and down the mountains getting here. Before we left Cameron we said our good bye's to Dave, Trish & Bill; they are headed south to the Sedona area for a good long break & rest. I tried to take Tank but Trish would have none of it. We have been with them for 2 months since meeting up in Casa Grande before the B&B II rally.
Clayton & Pat pulled in just as we were finishing setting up. After we all had a short rest we drove 5 miles to the Meteor Crater to check it out. It is a very windy day. We had Subway at the crater's visitor center, a first (and probably last) experience for Pat & Clayton. The crater was interesting, there was a very good short movie and the museum was very professional. We didn't take the crater rim walk due to the wind but did scamper up some of the viewing areas.
We are in the middle of nowhere as you can see in one of the pictures. The crater was made 50,ooo years ago when an asteroid traveling 26,000 miles an hour hit and created the crater which is 3/4 mile across and 700 feet deep. The asteroid was 150 feet across & weighted several hundred thousand tons. Now, how do they know all this? I found this all to be very interesting.
