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Sante Fe — Anyone been to Sage Bakery?
It was awesome in the 60’s. Even ABQ. 😂👍. Libs are like locusts.
Pueblo Bonito, one of the largest of the Chaco Canyon pueblos, is a good example of how the Hisatsinom lived.
Lots of pictures, map, etc.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999150/posts
***But the politics there have made it ugly.***
It is home State to me but I no longer live there due to what has happened to my state. 50-65 years ago it had great schools, great jobs in the oil, gas, mining.
Now the Californicated Liberals have made it one of the worst states to live and work in. Even the schools rate below Arkan-saw and Mississippi.
https://www.cibolacitizen.com/news/new-mexico-ranks-last-nations-report-card-ninth-time-row
Graduated high school there and enlisted in the Navy there. Lived there a couple times in the early 70’s because my mom was there. Now it’s not on my list to live for sure.
Cool.
Vortex Worship will do That !
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Of Course IDIOCRACY reigns Burrito Supreme!
Cool Trip!
Spent a summer on the Rez near
Ft. Defiance , I was Eleven and visited many sites as my Aunt collected pot Shards.
She Made Some Wonderful Mosaics with them.
It gave me a Keen eye for spotting old established sites.
“I sometimes call it the Land of Disenchantment. I lived there for 12 years.”
I live in New Mexico and the best thing about it(after the weather) is that no one is moving here and our state population is only 2 million. Lots of space with not a lot of people. Our motto is “We suck, don’t move here!”
Next door states of Azizona and Colorado have populations of 8 million and 6 million.
They are having real problems keeping up with their growth with all their infrastructure including roads, water, and electricity.
Okay
Who’s That?
If you ever visit Chaco, the world of the Ancients will never leave you.
During our traveling years we passed by the north and south entrances several times but the roads were always closed due to recent rains and the resulting flash floods.
On one of our final trips, coming home from California, the south road was “open”. You travel on a fairly decent highway until you get to the Chaco road. It is the roughest state level road I have ever traveled. Wash-outs and a washing board road are the order of the day. No speed limits need be posted, mother nature has it set to 10 mph or less.
I am not going to detail the visit other than to say by the time you complete a casual walk around the site, we took about three hours, you will be forever amazed at the rock work, skill and culture of the ancient Puebloans.
I was fascinated by the culture before our visit and even more so after the visit. Lots of info about the Four Corners area peoples and culture on the internet. Be Amazed! Its fun...
This writer probably meant to quote the great Cornholio, but then autocorrect kicked in.
There's a Navajo historian on YouTube who has some things to say about Chaco. According to their traditions, Chaco was not a good place, and the Anasazi were regarded as being completely different - and not in a good way - from the other people in that region.
I re-read the opening and I tend to agree. His description of accommodations, food and wine, both at Chaco and Santa Fe far over shadow his fascination about the culture and architecture of Chaco.
If we would have been able to overnight at Chaco, it would have been in a cramped tent with hot dogs for supper while we read the new books by lantern light.
To each his own and I enjoyed the re-visit mentally to Chaco. I will probably spend the rest of the night perusing the ancients.
BTW, I ran the battery down in my Nikon D750 and had to go back to the car to get my Kodak backup. That is the only time I have done that and I take a lot of photographs on our trips. When we visit a site like Chaco, I photograph it so that we can relive the walk around.
Could that have been remains of chamber pots?
Instead of emptying the chamber pots, the natives just smashed them in a pile since they had so many chamber pots and that was their industry?
He probably lit a flashlight so he could find his shoes or clothing. Bad for instant night vision.
Omitting the fact it is Navajo land.
Sounds like Crap to me!
“CHACO Canyon sounds like a Big Mystery...
I may visit the Four Corners Area.
Spider Rock, Window Rock-
Navajo New Mexico and Fort Defiance.”
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Been there.
It’s a very long “detour”, and the only state I’ve toured with a State’s highway information sign entirely in Spanish...
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