Destination Unknown Vox 2007-05-01T02:58:38Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd97050ce24cd5/tags/geology/ When the destination is a mystery, the journey is everything. Zion National Park tag:vox.com,2007-05-01:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d41431dad96a47 2007-05-01T02:58:38Z 2007-05-01T02:58:38Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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On our way to Las Vegas, we took the route that takes you through the southern edge of Zion National Park. I was unprepared for exactly how beautiful this drive would be, and we will definitely be going back to Zion for a longer visit sometime i...

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]]> Tepees and Puerco Pueblo tag:vox.com,2007-03-21:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d41423598b685e 2007-03-21T02:46:36Z 2007-03-22T03:37:09Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Yesterday: Blue Mesa This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. This is a pull-off north of the Blue Mesa area in the park called Tepees. There are no actual tepees here, but I guess som...

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]]> Blue Mesa tag:vox.com,2007-03-20:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d09e5d695ebe2b 2007-03-20T03:00:54Z 2007-03-21T02:47:21Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Shadow Blue Mesa Area 1 Pedestals 1 Pedestals 2 Area Closed Blue Mesa Area 2 Blue Mesa Area 3 Raven Mesa Area 4 Mesa Area 5 Mesa Area 6 Mesa Area 7 Mesa Area 8 Mesa Area 9 Mesa Area 10 Strix and Raven

Yesterday: Crystal Forest This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Probably the most beautiful area of the park that we saw was the Blue Mesa area, which is a looped drive that you have...

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Crystal Forest Triassic Display Petrified Wood 13 Petrified Wood 14 Crystal Forest 2 Cyrstal Forest 3 Camel Rock

Yesterday: Agate House This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Crystal Forest is another trail area in the PFNP, strewn with pieces of petrified trees. This sign describes what scien...

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]]> Agate House tag:vox.com,2007-03-18:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d414229ff8685e 2007-03-18T06:28:02Z 2007-03-18T17:50:34Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Agate House Trailhead Agate House 1 Agate House 2 Agate House 3 Agate House 4 Agate House 5 Agate House 6 Silicate Deposits

Yesterday: Rainbow Forest and Museum This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. If you park at the Rainbow Forest Museum and walk across the small bridge to the north, you come to the tra...

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]]> Rainbow Forest and Museum tag:vox.com,2007-03-16:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d414289eb73c7f 2007-03-16T04:01:03Z 2007-03-18T06:36:50Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Did You Forget to Feed the Dog, Honey World's Biggest Rolly Polly Rainbow Forest Petrified Wood 10 Rainbow Forest Memorial Plaque Petrified Wood 11 Petrified Wood 12 Rainbow Forest 2

Yesterday: Holbrook's Petroglyph Park This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. This was our second day at the Petrified Forest National Park, and we came at it from the other direction,...

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]]> Shiprock tag:vox.com,2007-03-11:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d414276d063c7f 2007-03-11T03:49:21Z 2007-03-12T11:16:41Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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One of the Flickr groups Strix belongs to requires her to take a picture of a sunset occasionally and post it to the group. Our idea this time was to go out to the Four Corners Monument, since we hadn't been there, yet, and take pictures at suns...

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]]> The Petrified Forest tag:vox.com,2007-03-09:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d414207f28685e 2007-03-09T02:06:07Z 2007-03-10T05:08:54Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Yesterday: Newspaper Rock and Agate Bridge This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. When you get to the Petrified Forest part of the park, you begin to see the pieces of mineralized tre...

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]]> The Painted Desert tag:vox.com,2007-03-07:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500cd971869bc4cd5 2007-03-07T02:55:15Z 2007-03-08T02:16:10Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Yesterday: Window Rock This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The troubling thing about landscape shots, is that the photographs never look as amazing as the actual scenary did. Neve...

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]]> Window Rock tag:vox.com,2007-03-06:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d41423d0f36a47 2007-03-06T02:45:35Z 2007-03-08T00:32:32Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

In Remembrance Window Rock Window Rock and Strix Code Talker Window Rock Park 1 Window Rock Park 2 Horses

Strix and I spent the weekend in Arizona visiting the Petrified Forest National Park and points in between (and a little beyond). I have a lot of pictures to post and a couple of restaurant reviews, so rather than try to do it all in one long po...

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