Day 17

Today, we leave the Grand Canyon National Park and continue our journey to the East. We'll be driving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, we're we'll be spending the night. Along the way, we're going to stop at Petrified Forest National Park.

This is going to be a "drive-through" visit. Since we'll have Patty & Rachel with us, we don't plan to do any hiking. We'll stop for our requisite park entrance sign picture and stop at the visitor's center to buy our pin, but other than that, nothing else is planned.

After driving through the park, we still have a long drive to go to get to Albuquerque.

When we arrive in Albuquerque, we're going to need to get to sleep pretty early. We have to wake up before dawn tomorrow to get Patty & Rachel to the airport for their flight home.