Monday, October 25, 2010

Meteor Crater

After a wonderful night at the La Posada hotel, we rode off west on I-40.

We met a Yamaha rider at the petrol station, going out to enjoy the day on his spotless bike.
About 20 miles down the road we turned off down Meteor Crater Road to visit the world's "first identified and best preserved" meteor crater. They reckon that a 45 m diameter iron meteor landed here about 50,000 years ago. It weighed a lot and was travelling very fast, so it dug a very big hole - 1.2 km across and several hundred metres deep.

Returning back to I-40, we continued into Flagstaff, where we had lunch and rang around to see if we could get a back tyre for our motorbike on a Saturday afternoon. The last one was getting pretty ratty, with pronounced "scoops" on either side of the centre tread. There was a bloke at the restaurant in desperate need of a life. We soon found a place that could do it and headed off after lunch. Finding them was something of a challenge. Their address was "E(ast) Route 66". When Chris typed it into the GPS it found the road, but when Chris "accepted" this, the GPS inextricably changed the address to W(est) Route 66. This was not expected and went unnoticed until we ended up in the middle of nowhere, 7 miles west off Flagstaff.

Eventually we found the place and had a new rear tyre fitted. By then it was getting late, so we decided to continue only to Williams, another 30 miles down I-40, rather than press on to Seligman. It was a good decision. We found a motel across the road from a supermarket that was comfortable, well appointed and very reasonably priced.

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