In 2022, we had planned on a long road trip to visit relatives in NC. Then the #Dobbs decision convinced us not to travel through anti-choice states. So we spent $4,239.09 in NM and AZ instead, and we had the time of our lives.
Once a forest... just some 200 millions years ago...
Chunks of petrified wood lay strewn among the bentonite mud hills of the Painted Desert, in the Blue Mesa area of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona; September 2018.
For #MonochromeMonday some hoodoos overlooking the Painted Desert badlands beyond Blue Mesa, at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona; September 2018.