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5-16-05 - Damn debit cards

So, Sarah & I got back from a long weekend in New Mexico yesterday only to find milk had seeped all over our chicken patties and sat idle in a hot cooler for a couple days. A nasty site after such a colorful and beautiful place like New Mexico. We got into the town of Taos on a search for Julia Roberts, Dennis Hopper & food. Although we didn't run into Roberts or Hopper, we did find some food in the town square and also had the first of the encounters we would have with two strange English women.

After dinner we head to the AbominableSnowmansion Hostel and grab ourselves a tipi in the back. We made breakfast in the kitchen the next morning and headed out to the Taos Pueblo early in the afternoon. The pueblos are over 1,000 years old and the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians still inhabit the pueblos and many of them had shops set up selling their goods. We ate some fried bread cookies that we baked in 550-600 year old ovens that they still use everyday. We had an opportunity to talk with several people their about some of the history as well as the current issues within the pueblo they are having today. All of a sudden out of the church comes the English woman with the crazy smile.

We then headed to Santa Fe and made stops at historical spots along the way before reaching Bandalier National Monument to see cliff dwellings and to find a new camp site for the night. We saw cave dwellings and another part of the park that seemed like a giant hotel dwelling for the Indians. The circular complex is said to have over 300 rooms in it, all very small rooms just to sleep in and a massive inside area where rituals and everyday life was spent. After the hike we made camp and stuffed ourselves with leftover fajitas, smores & beer before going to bed.

In the morning we made a trip out to Tsankawi Trail, about 11 miles from where we camped for the night. It was only a little over a mile and a half but it took us through ruins from when the Anasazi settled during the late 1100's. It once consisted of small pueblos, cliff dwellings and a field in the canyon that they would grow there food and hunt. Here we were able to enter the dwellings and see petroglyphs that were carved into the walls. The carvings were not nearly as detailed or as well preserved as the ones I saw in Utah a few weekends ago so if you are going on a trip to see petroglyhs.... go to Utah.

In Santa Fe we walked around checking out different vendors goods, which was a very unpleasant time for me because I had lost my debit card the day before and my $40 cash for the rest of the trip was not going to cut it... luckily Sarah is loaded. We made our way to the Georgia O'Keefe museum to find an exhibit called 'Flowers' that was showing O'Keefe's work with Andy Warhol's. It was very cool and ended up with a couple postcards. After a day of strolling we headed back to the mountains to find yet another camp site to call home for the night. What we did find was a bunch of hail & rain which got us into a motel for the night in the outskirts of town. The evening ended in the hotel falling asleep to baseball tonight.

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