I wander the trail and the museum, which also features dinosaur skeletons as its centerpiece, before heading over to the curio shop to pick up a hunk of stone of my own :-)
The Petrified Forest truly captivated. I had originally planned to spend only an hour here before heading to Albuquerque and its zoo before it closed. Nope. You can't see this park in an hour, and truly do it justice with your attention. No matter, Albuquerque still holds a restaurant recommendation by my friend David Chesher, which will serve as dinner.
However, at the curio shop here I noticed the cashier wearing a name tag with "Holbrook, AZ" as his place of origin. Thinking back to my decision before, at the town so named, I asked him how far it was from here.
"Oh, about 18 miles."
So there you have it. Those signs at Holbrook knew what they were talking about after all ;-) Had I not been impatient along that lonely stretch of road between there and here, perhaps the park tour would have taken less time from other adventures! Ah-well, live and learn; I don't regret the decision too much, because had I taken that road instead the rain would still be upon us, and now I get to see the sights twice as I return to Route 66.
Lunch is a sandwich and chips snagged from the shop and eaten in the car, before I drive back through the park and on my way to the next destination.
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