We drove back to Flagstaff for the Overland Expo. It was all about everything burly and 4 wheel drive. It was raining, snowing and very windy. Here is a crazy 4 wheeler, a rugged trailer and a really rugged trailer.
A huge burly 4 wheeler, A tiny tent on a tiny truck, Roof top tents, A foil insulated pod and another burly 4 wheeler. We saw our friends Elena and Matt from Oregon Motor Coach, where we get our coach worked on. They are also customizing vans now too.
Our friends Bec and Emmett. They ordered a sportsmobile two years ago and it is still in the process of being built. They are here for the expo, camped with the other sportsmobiles and taking classes.
Meanwhile back at the bus we have 30 mph winds with 40 mph gusts and some showers. I didn't think there would be a sunset because of the dark clouds, but we got this weird mini sunset. We moved down the road about 30 miles to Homolovi State Park. There are indian ruins here. It was very windy, with some showers. Here we are in our campsite.
I went for a walk along the trail to the Visitors Center this evening. There are lots of flowers blooming. Apache plume seeds, gaillardia, purple flowers and evening primrose.
Gate in the trail. White mustards. milk vetch seed pods, prickly pear and yucca.
Yucca flowers, and three flowers I don't know the name of. Sunset sneaked in at the last minute under the clouds.
We went to the ruins at the Homolovi state park where we are camped today. This ruin is at the visitors center, they built it there. The view from the visitors center.
The ruins here are not restored, still just ruins. But there were large indian pueblos here.
There must have been millions of pots here, there are tons of pot shards here still.
We took a side dirt road and found a bunch of petroglyphs. And a horn worm and phacelia blossoms. They are pretty old and hard to see. John took me to dinner at the famous Turquoise room restaurant at the historic La Posada tonight. We had the famous stuffed squash blossoms. They were really yummy.
This is our waitress Kayla. The waitresses are dressed as Harvey girls since La Posada was a Harvey house hotel on the Santa Fe line. In town we found indian drummers and dancers at the city park.
One of the dancers. A mural in Winslow. Welcome to Winslow, 10,000 people welcome you to Winslow, Snake Dance country on route 66.
Sunset in historic downtown Winslow.
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