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The Painted Desert was the last of our stops on the Western Side of the US. We took the 40 through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee. There are a few interesting places in Virginia that we looked at before our trip ended, however. We stopped at some caverns.. I don't remember the name of them and I don't have any pics. We went deep down into some hot and humid caves and saw many types of weird underground rock formations.. these caverns had never been completly explored, since there were some areas that were inaccessible. They turned off the lights to show us what absolute darkness looked like. It looks a lot like regular darkness, except that your eyes never adjust to it - there is no light whatsoever in the place that they can pick up.
We also went to the Natural Bridge, which is a rock bridge that has been naturally formed through erosion. George Washington went there before he was president, as a surveyor, and carved his initials on the interior wall.
After that we went home. It's sad even writing about the trip ending, it was one of those types of experiences that you only go through once or twice in a lifetime. But we got many good memories, we got engaged, and both of us had done something that most people never get to do. |
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