2021 Retirement Road Trip

Arizona- New Mexico

We headed out at 7am to continue our journey to the east! We took highway 40th which parallels the famous historical Route 66. There were many cute little towns.

我們早上七點出發，走40號公路往東。這條路線是與有歷史性的66公路平行，延路上有許多可愛的小城市。

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact craterabout 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, after the adjacent Cañon Diablo. The crater was created about 50,000 years ago. Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of 5,640 ft (1,719 m) above sea level. It is about 3,900 ft (1,200 m) in diameter, some 560 ft (170 m) deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises 148 ft (45 m) above the surrounding plains.

巴林傑隕石坑位於美國亞利桑那州北部的沙漠中，五萬年前的隕石撞擊留下的大石坑，隕石坑位在海拔1740公尺的高原上，直徑1200公尺，深達170公尺，周圍圍繞著45公尺高的隆起地形。巴林傑隕石坑的基岩上方已經被厚達210到240公尺的礫石層覆蓋。美國太空總署利用這個大石坑做太空人登陸的練習。

Winslow achieved national fame in 1972 in the Eagles / Jackson Brownesong “Take It Easy” which has the line “standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.”

美國著名搖滾樂隊Eagles的首張專輯的經典作品”Take It Easy”當中第二段歌詞部份所描寫的即為這個小鎮温斯洛。

Petrified Forest National Park is in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands.

石化林國家公園位於亞利桑納州的北部。是世界上最大的矽化木森林，大部份是南洋杉科南洋杉型木屬的南洋杉型木。這些樹木曾生存於三疊紀晚期。這個國家公園成立於1962年。