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		<title>Sunset Crater, Wupatki, the Arizona Snow Bowl, and Denny’s Restaurant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the next morning, a Saturday, we got up, got dressed, and headed  out on Hwy 89 toward Sunset Crater, which is an extinct volcano,  complete with fields of lava and cinder cones.  We we arrived, there was  a faint scent that I believe was the lava.  It vaguely reminded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the next morning, a Saturday, we got up, got dressed, and headed  out on Hwy 89 toward Sunset Crater, which is an extinct volcano,  complete with fields of lava and cinder cones.  We we arrived, there was  a faint scent that I believe was the lava.  It vaguely reminded me of  the smell of welding metal with a torch.  I could only detect it for a  short time. It was somewhat hot, but we enjoyed the walk.  It was fun to  actually walk among the lava fields, surrounded by extinct volcanoes.   Below are a couple of pictures.  The second image contains part of a  cinder cone.</p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora06.jpg"><img title="Lava fields" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora06-300x224.jpg" alt="Sunset Crater, extinct volcano in Arizona" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora08.jpg"> </a></p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora08.jpg"> </a><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora08.jpg"><img title="Cinder Cone" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora08-300x224.jpg" alt="Part of a cinder cone at Sunset Crater in Arizona" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="../wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora08.jpg"> </a></p>
<p>After the volcano tour, we went to Wupatki, an 800-year-old remnant  of what is thought to have been a meeting place, and the largest pueblo  around.  Although much of the pueblo is gone, the ruins are still  interesting and well worth a visit.  Below are a few pictures of  Wupatki.</p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora12.jpg"><img title="Wupatki" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora12-300x224.jpg" alt="Wupatki ruins in Arizona" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora10.jpg"><img title="Wupatki Relics" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora10-300x224.jpg" alt="Wupatki artifacts in Arizona" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora11.jpg"><img title="A door in Wupatki" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora11-300x224.jpg" alt="Wupatki ruins" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p>There were more ruins near the road, some nearer than others.</p>
<p>After this adventure, we drove to the Arizona Snow Bowl, which is a  ski area.  I rode a chair lift from a height of 9500 feet to 11,500.   The views were wonderful.  It was almost like flying&#8211;well, maybe more  like hovering.  Many times, the chair was high above the ground, which  is why I rode alone.  Someone else remained below.  I did get a headache  in the way down, probably as a result of going from 7000 feet (at  Flagstaff) to 11,500 in the space of about an hour.</p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora13.jpg"><img title="Going up at the  Arizona Snow Globe" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora13-300x224.jpg" alt="Chair lift at the Arizona Snow Globe" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora14.jpg"><img title="Going down at the  Arizona Snow Globe" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora14-300x224.jpg" alt="View at the Arizona Snow Globe" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora15.jpg"><img title="View from the chair  lift at the Arizona Snow Globe" src="http://louisianapainter.com/heartsgold/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june-vern-lenora15-300x224.jpg" alt="View from the ski lift" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p>We ate at Denny&#8217;s in Flagstaff that night and went to bed at 8:30.   The next day we were going to the Grand Canyon.</p>
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