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| Our first stop (other than county caches) was an Earthcache called the Blue Hole. | Strange to see this thing in the middle of a desert | Bob said he wouldn't be caught dead taking a picture here so I had to get one then! <grin> |
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| We had to compare elevations between the two bodies of water... so we chose the blue hole's neighbor pond. | Can you see what makes this virtual unique? | Our lady of the tree virtual |
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| I have to stand in front of the Contintenal Divide sign or I could give away some answers for the Earthcache. | This was once tourist country... now it's pretty dried up. | This trip would be about Mesa's and Butte's for all of the Earthcaches that asked about them! |
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| The next morning we headed off into Arizona and first stop was the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert | After that we headed to Winslow AZ to get a virtual from the band EAGLES. | They really cater to the area with bronze statues of the band, a girl in a pickup, and other stuff from the song |
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| Even the stores are trying to lure you in | We were there at 8 a.m. and they already had a guy playin in the parking lot! | The Last great Railroad Motel is an old but still very fancy motel (and still in business). |
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| To get the virtual we needed a picture on the back porch | On the road and I finally talked Bob into going to see the Barringer Crater - one of the biggest in the world | The virtual just needs you to take a picture in front... the earthcache you have to pay admission to get to the crater. |
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| This is something I wanted to see since I learned about it in fourth grade! | A pano of the crater | It is 550 feet deep and 2.4 miles in circumference! |
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| One thing you can't see is there is a little building in the middle down there with a wood cutout of a lifesized astronaut... only with the telescopes can you see it. | A movie panorama | |
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| I had to get a picture of me near the apollo capsule | Astronauts trained in the crater simulating the moon and other harsh conditions | A nearby traditional cache (we got it for the county) but still is holding the theme of the area. |
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| A driveby Earthcache - answer questions as you pass it by... I-40 Sediments and Faults | Camera can't take a good enough picture compaired to you eyeballs! We saw all kinds of neat landscape on the road! | Next stop - another detour - Hoover Dam! |
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| The electrical grid here is outlandish! Very cool!! | You can drive across it, park either side, spend the day... | however, it was 113 and we didn't want to die of heat exahustion! |
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| The vitrual "A Virtual Reward for a Dam Cool Dog" ... very good story about a dog that hung out while the building of the dam was going on. | It ends sadly and to get the virtual you have to get info at his gravesite (right below here) and take a picture | |
