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Driving On. As you continue along the 28-mile Petrified Forest Drive, you enter an area of badlands quite reminiscent of those found in South Dakota. (Thankfully, there’s nothing as tacky as Wall Drug waiting at the end of these bad …

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Today’s journey will mark one bookend of the Arizona portion of this trip – that is, it’s the last day of sightseeing before I return to Tucson for the flight home. Today we’ll traverse about 350 miles, first east then …

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Taking it easy. Believe it or not, I’d accomplished two (visiting Walnut Canyon and Lowell Observatory) of the three main items on today’s to do list and it was barely 13:00. I took an easy drive down Mars Hill Road …