| Seriously? More ruins? How much more of
this can there be? |
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| Well these are the Aztec ruins in
northwestern New Mexico. This is the reconstructed Great Kiva. |
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| You can tell it's reconstructed because
there is no way it was kept this nice for so many centuries. |
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| This, of course, would be the
Not-So-Great Kiva. |
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| This 900-year old ancestral Pueblo
Great House had over 400 rooms. |
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| Hey, hang on a tick. These aren't ruins
at all. They're still building this place. |
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| BATS!!!!!!!! |
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| Mind your head when going through the
doorways between all of the rooms. I only conked my head once. |
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| This is the world-famous Hubbard
Tri-Wall Site. If you look really close you can see where the
cupboard used to be. |
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| The nearby town is also called Aztec,
which is a little odd since there were no Aztecs anywhere near here. |
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| Woo hoo! Getting some much needed rain. |
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| Ended up the day in Santa Fe. This was
the first chain hotel I stayed in the whole trip. It was actually
kind of nice to have some modern conformity. The building still has
a little of that New Mexico style on the outside. |
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| I was on the south side of town and
didn't want to venture into the town center looking for dinner so I
found the Plaza Cafe Southside nearby. I had a delicious turkey
melt, which was smoked turkey, sharp cheddar, arugula, (hold the)
bacon, onion marmalade and avocado on house-baked green chile
cheddar bread with garlic sauce. Mmm, mmm. And a big ol' strawberry
shake. |
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| It was fairly busy being a Friday
evening. I noticed these three musical skeletons in a mural on a
wall. I can buy the two that are playing the fiddle and guitar, but
the one in the middle is playing his trumpet with his teeth. And the
trumpet had four valves! |
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