Arizona Trip Part 3

Arizona Trip Part 3 takes place on Monday, April 29th.  Tim picked me up at my hotel and we headed to breakfast at Country Host Restaurant.  The food wasn’t bad but the waitress was a little too chatty and not the most attentive for my taste. 

We decided to head to Jerome, an old mining town.  The museum was cool but it wasn’t what we expected.  We were expecting a ghost town. It wasn’t.  We did do a littel shopping in the gift shop and the view of Sedona from the parking lot was beautiful.  I did not use my Nikon but I did take quite a few photos with my GoPro.  

We then headed for Sedona where we did a little more shopping.  Unfortunately it started to rain so we didn’t get any photos.  We stopped at Alamo Grille for lunch. We then headed back to Flagstaff to stop at our hotels and for Tim to stop at Sportsmans  Warehouse so he could buy a more comfortable, breathing pair of hiking shoes.  He also bought a sweatshirt because the tempersature had dropped quite a bit. It was 80s on Sunday but just barely hit 60 on Monday.  I was wearing my Carolina sweatshirt. We both picked up ‘I survived the wind’ tee shirts along with a few magnets.

Standing on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona

We were finally on our way to Winslow.  This part of the trip was for me. Tim hadn’t wanted to drive out to Winslow UNTIL he realized that the Meteor Crater was on the way.  That perked him right up.  It was VERY windy at the crater.  The crater is approximately 50,000 years old and is really just a very large hole in the ground.  It was cool. Took a lot of photos with both the Nikon and the GoPro.

We arrived in Winslow and headed to the corner made famous from the Eagle‘s song "Take It Easy" I wanted to stand on the corner and try not to sound like a prostitute.  I was surprised we were the only ones there for a few minutes.  One of the stores nearby was playing the song.  The locals must be so sick of that song. I was surprised that it wasn’t a building at all but just a wall.  There was even an eagle (the bird) in one of the fake windows and an old red flatbead Ford truck parked on the street. Historic Route 66 runs right through the town and right in front of Standin On The Corner Park. I had Tim take a photo of me standing on the Corner.  I took MANY photos at many different angles. We did a little shopping at the ‘Standin in the Corner’ shop across the street.

We ate dinner at diner down the street called Relic Road.  The burger was quite good.  We were treated to quite the lightning show on the drive back to the hotel.  It was hailing when Tim dropped me off.  I posted one of the photos that Tim took of me standing on the corner before I went to bed.

You can read the first two parts: Arizona Trip Part 1 and Arizona Trip Part 2