The Hawthornes leave Sedona
and head eastward to ...
where?
A quick check in my AAA Arizona TourBook
tells me to go to the Meteor Crater
on I 40 Exit 233, just before Winslow.
I will always remember the Meteor Crater
as the place where my Nikon D80 stopped working.
The lens made a horrible scraping noise as I tried
to autofocus.
It wouldn't focus.
I'm aghast.
I have to turn to Manual.
And actually focus the camera myself.
Like in the Old Days.
Quel horreurs.
This is a really big hole in the ground.
It was formed nearly 50,000 years ago
by a meteorite
and it measures 550 feet deep,
2.4 miles in circumference,
and nearly 1 mile across.
See that stuff in the center?
Apollo Astronauts trained here.
See if you can find the astronaut.
He's six feet tall and standing next
to a 3 x 5 foot American flag.
I see Magritte.
This is the Holsinger meteorite -
the largest discovered fragment of the meteor
that created Meteor Crater.
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