On our way to the Grand Canyon, we stopped to overnight
at Meteor Crater RV Park, about 18 miles west of Winslow, Arizona on I-40. We’ve
stayed here several times before because it’s about half-way between
Albuquerque and Las Vegas. It’s a very nice, well maintained RV park.
We arrived around 2PM and as usual, we were messed up on
the local time because Arizona does not go to Daylight Saving Time.
We disconnected our
pickup from our motorhome and drove back to Winslow to visit the famous “corner”
and also the historic La Posada Hotel. The corner was made famous with lyrics
of The Eagles song “Take it Easy”. You can see the reflection of the girl in
the flatbed Ford on the wall behind us in the photo of us.
The historic La Posada
Hotel is two blocks down the street on historic Route 66. The La Posada
Hotel is a national historic landmark. It was built in 1929 by the Fred Harvey
Company on the Santa Fe Railway line. It was the last hotel-train depot complex
built in the southwestern U.S. as collaboration between Fred Harvey and the
Santa Fe railway. Today Amtrak provides daily service to Winslow on its Chicago
to Los Angeles route.
The Turquoise Room, the
hotel’s restaurant, was ranked as one of the top 3 restaurants in the U.S. by
Conde Nast in 2009. We enjoyed dinner there and it was really good.
Steve & Julie
Cornelius
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