Williams through Flagstaff and on to Winslow?  We have been on this path before.  It was during the 2009 Albuquerque Baloon fiesta and we did these same towns but a bit differently.  Last time we drove through Williams, stayed overnight in Flagstaff and just stopped for lunch in Winslow.

We left Williams and briefly stopped in Flagstaff for lunch and to stop at REI for a part for my roof rack.  Our actual destination was Homolovi State Park.  They have a campground there and it seemed like a good place to stop off.  Their campground is reservation only as many others now are.  We drove around to see what spots were open for one night and we liked.  We then got online to see which of THOSE spots would be available for 3 more nights.  We reserved the below spot for 3 nights, plus the one night we paid for at the kiosk.

You can see our satellite dish out there and it worked wonderfully as there were about 2 Spanish channels in the area.

Homolovi SP is dedicated to preserving some of the old structures that were used by early Hopi people.  There are a couple of easy walks here so we looked around a bit:

We noticed that many people must be on the lookout for pieces of pottery (see the first 2 photos) as there is a LOT of it that has been aggregated along the trails.  We also saw this sign:

I thought they had misspelled the word ‘shards’ but it turns out the word ‘sherds’ is to be used for pieces of pottery.  I am always am interested in learning new things.

Winslow, as a town, does not have that much to offer.   It has a Walmart and a couple of truck stops.  It also has that corner made famous by the Eagles.  We didn’t check out the corner since we did in 2009 but had a dinner one evening right across the street from it.  Another negative is that the AT&T signal was very unusable as it only got to 4G and seemed to be only one tower somewhere.

On the morning we were to leave the wind picked up something fierce!  It was forecast so we knew we were going to hit it and we knew NOT to stay any longer.  Right before we left the camp host said the wind had hit 61 that morning.  Let’s get out of here!