Man, I love this state! I took a lot of pictures here!
If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend trying a little Frybread.
It's a flat bread, commonly made by Native Americans and served with honey.
This gorgeous butte is in Chaco Canyon, NM.
The canyon is a bit remote, making it one of the gems of our trip.
We camped there over night, and had a fantastic time touring the ruins and sites in the area.
These ruins are from the largest Ancestral Puebloan structures in the country. Chaco Canyon was a center of the culture from 850AD to 1250AD. I was so thrilled reading about
the archeological finds there, Damon commented that maybe I should have been an archeologist!
The largest kiva in the canyon at sunset.
We hiked from the canyon floor to the mesa top using this natural "staircase."
It's amazing how the canyon walls look inaccessible, but when you go to just the right place,
a gradual incline like this leads easily to the top! I loved walking up this "staircase" that has
been used by people for thousands of years!
Anscestral Puebloan people carved bowls like this into the mesa top.
They may have been used for offerings.
We saw several ravens. Exciting to us, ordinary to people from the region.
Walking along the mesa top.
Fossilized sea shells.
Shrine behind the Sancturio de Chimayo.
Sancturio de Chimayo
Nice mesa top campsite.
A little shop with a lot of stuff.
I can see why Georgia O'Keefe painted the NM sky so frequently.
We stopped at this little cafe in Pietown.
But, they were gone fishing...
This is the post office in Pietown! We found a second place to have breakfast,
but they were only serving pie. Pie for breakfast? Don't have to twist my arm!
Another gorgeous NM landscape, and a favorite photo.
