The Painted Desert and Petrified Forest in Eastern Arizona were simply amazing:
Petrified log:
Wow:
That’s a log on the ridge:
Closeup of a petrified log:
There was an old settlement there Here’s what’s known:
Some walls remain partially intac:
Here you can see the fine workmanship:
There were also some remarkably well-preserved petroglyphs:
Bad-ass birds? Symbolic? We’ll never really know: