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Once in Arizona a lot of the old Route 66 to Holbrook has now been replaced by interstate, with little bits of the original that can still be driven shooting off here and there.
Our travel guide recommended that we stop at the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park; so when the signs came up we turned off the interstate to have a look.
There was 28 miles of road winding through the park that brought us out almost at our hotel in Holbrook so we decided to explore it. The views through the park were stunning; miles and miles of untouched land showing millions of years of history. Part of the old 66 trail used to run through the park and is now commemorated by a stop along the way with the remains of an old 1932 Studebaker and the telegraph poles that used to line the route.
A little further on are some stops where petrified wood lies scattered where time has left it, and in one place a whole 110ft tree that is 217 million years old and forms a fossilised bridge between the rocks it's embedded in, where water has worn away the ground beneath it.
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