When someone asked me, “Meteor Crater is just a hole in the ground, why are you going there?” I replied, “And to some people, the Grand Canyon is a big ditch–but not to me.”  Funny, I said that before ever visiting either place.

I’d driven I-40 as far west as Flagstaff on a previous road trip, 25 years ago.  I visited the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest National Park, Walnut Canyon National Monument, and the Lowell Observatory.  I even stood on a corner in Winslow Arizona—looking for a girl driving a flatbed Ford.  Of course, this was before Winslow put up a statue of the late Glenn Frey.

As for Meteor Crater – it was chilly and blustery – and I loved every minute of it.