[bert]

I spent the night in Chaco.....awesome.

I hope to go again, this time having read more of Steve Lekson’s books. I sorted through the books at the Chaco Park Service store and found that his on the Chaco Meridian seemed to make the most sense.

I can’t describe the feeling of visiting the village of Oraibi on the Hopi Mesa where the people have been living continuously for 900 years. The village is believed to have been settled after the departure fron Chaco

[Betis70]

I remember taking a class in college on Latin American immigrants in the US. The professor (from Puerto Rico) asked the first day of class what the oldest settlement was in the US. He expected people to say Jamestown or Plymouth, and he’d pull the ‘gotcha’ St Augustine card. Most students obliged him.

I told him Old Oraibi on the Hopi mesas. He was flummoxed.

Being a trained archaeologist who worked in the SW, I am chagrined to say I’ve never been to Chaco. All my cars were of the sporty variety and that road in would have ripped the oil pans from them.