Friday 7.8. (Petrified Forest)

In the morning we left Chuck and his family and head toward Petrified Forest. As we approach futher to the norteast, the elevation is getting higher and the desert is exchanged by forest while the temperature is lowering slowly (so that when we got to the paark, it is already nice weather). We walk through the petrified once wooden logs in the rocks, which look very much as Badlands NP. A bit further in the park, there are the ruins of old indian pueblo with the original petroglyphs on the rocks around. Driving more to the south into the Painted Desert, we have beautiful overlooks on the colorfull rocks around. We drive from the park on highway heading west; make a stop at Burger King and in the evening we arrive to the camp at Meteor Crater. It is a nice campground and after a longer while we return again to the tent setting.