6 October – Holbrook

We headed out this morning on a round trip. First stop was Winslow to find the street corner made famous in the Eagles song “Take it Easy”.

Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me

At Standing on the Corner Park we found a statue of a guy with a guitar and on the wall behind him, the girl in the flatbed Ford. Cool!

It was pouring rain, so we had a coffee in a diner over the road while we waited for it to stop enough to take pics.

Leaving Winslow, we kept on Route 66 to the meteor crater. The crater is nearly one mile across, 2.4 miles in circumference and more than 550 feet deep and was the result of a meteor strike around 50,000 years ago.

The crater was discovered at the end of the nineteenth century by Grove Gilbert, and studies proved that the crater was formed by impact of a huge metallic meteor, the first and best preserved of (so far) about 150 such craters on Earth to be identified. The largest surviving fragment of the meteor weighs 3/4 tons. Current theories place the size of the meteor as 150 feet in diameter, and its weight at 300,000 tons.

The site is privately owned and the admission fee of $18 each was a bit steep, considering that you can only view the crater from a viewing platform and can’t walk the rim or go down into the crater. Worth a look though!