Day 2 I woke up at the rest area at 0630 after about 3 hours of sleep totaling 5 hours that night. I took my feet out of my Vibram 5 fingers which I was wearing and my feet smelled horrible as I had been wearing the shoes for close to 24 hours straight. Anyways I had a quick breakfast of a banana, apple, walnuts, and water and got on the road. I soon arrived in New Mexico and merged onto I-40 which would take me the rest of the way. I was going to reach Flagstaff by 1200 so I stopped at the Petrified National Forest Park which is on I-40. This was quite interesting and I watched a video about the park which stated the petrification process had taken 225 million years and the rest of the film was filled with similar lies. I took far to many pictures and hiked every trail I could. The park is a 28 mile road that you drive and stop at several areas to see important landmarks and trailheads. While hiking a rattlesnake was on the side of the trail. I decided to just walk past but be became agitated and wound up. He was about 3 feet away when he decided to strike my right foot. Luckily he died when he got within 1 inch of my foot. His momentum carried him forward though and his lifeless head thunked against my foot. Thankfully my feet smelled bad enough to kill the snake instantly. I spent about 3 hours in the park and then finished my drive to Flagstaff where I stayed the night.
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| The beginning of the route. |
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| Red Badlands |
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| Immense Landscape |
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| Some of the most vivid cliffs of the Painted Desert |
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| Showing multiple mineral layers deposited over "millions of years" |
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| Left over dwellings of people from the past. |
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| There were tons of hieroglyphics but this was one of the most interesting. |
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| More dwellings on top of a mesa |
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| Interesting rock formation |
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| None of these logs would be good firewood |
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| Looks like wood but isn't |
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| Petrified log bridge |
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| Solid stone |
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