Petrified Forest National Park

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Hiromi N.

San Francisco, CA

5/7/2007

I am a road-trip queen.  How else can I explain my penchant for transcontinental road trips?  If you need a co-pilot to drive across the country, well, I'll be there for you.

During one of my road trips, when one of my girlfriend's was "finding herself" post-divorce, we discovered the Petrified Forest.

It really isn't so much a forest of trees, but more a forest of tree fossils.  The Petrified Forest National Park is a sight to behold.  This Park contains"...one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science".  

We drove and drove and spent about 3 hours beholding nature's wonders.  We stopped frequently to take photos of the Native American petroglyphs and to watch the rainbow of colors rippling in the sand at sunset.  There was a sense of spiritual peacefulness in the absence of noise.

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