Nice drive today through basin and range country. I-40 parallels and crosses Route 66 several times going east from Seligman, Arizona. We took a side trip to Meteor Crater about 20 miles west and 5 miles south of Winslow. The diameter of the Crater is about 1 mile and it 700 feet deep. It was caused by a meteorite traveling about 26,000 miles per hour some 50,000 years ago. The iron-nickle meteorite was probably about 150 feet across and weighed several hundred thousand tons. It struck the site with an explosive force of more than 20 million tons of TNT. In 1960 Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey proved conclusively that the crater was caused by the meteorite impact. I took this photograph with a Canon EF-S, 10-22mm, 1:3.5-4.5, USM lens while standing on the edge of the crater rim.

Meteor Crater

We traveled on to Winslow and drove through town on historic Route 66. Of course we stopped on "the corner" made famous by the Eagles. Do you remember "Standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, I'm such a fine site to see. It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin down to take a look at me." Here we are:

  The Corner at Winslow, Arizona

 Standing the Corner