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| Road trip in May, 2009 with Peggy and Lee Collins in our car. Here we were entering Canyon DeChelly in Arizona |
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| Pat and Eugene at an outlook at Canyon DeChelly |
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| Looking at a tower down in the canyon |
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| A view of the canyon - there are a lot of Navajos who live in this area. |
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| On the trail to the White House ruins |
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| Crossing the river after reaching the bottom of the canyon. |
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| Looking at the White House ruins |
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| Peggy and Lee in front of White House ruins |
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| Showing the trail as we are hiking out of the canyon |
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| Window Roch on the western Arizona/New Mexico border |
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| The NavajoNation Tribal Center (there is a real cow in the picture just wandering around) |
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| Dinner at a restaurant near the hotel in Albuquerque |
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| The next day we visited the Albuquerque temple grounds |
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| The front of the temple |
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| A view of the back of the temple from the parking lot |
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| In Santa Fe at Loretto Chapel with its miraculous stairway (notice the strange guy inbetween Pat and Peggy) |
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| Eugene in front of the cathedral |
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| Pat standing by a pig sculpture at an art shop |
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| Pat inside one of the many gift shops |
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| The art section of Santa Fe |
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| Pat looking over the jewelry |
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| All of us sitting down for a minute after shopping |
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| A flute player in front of a shop |
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| Eating some great Mexican food at a Santa Fe restaurant |
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| Entering Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico |
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| Ruins of dwellings built in and around some natural cliffs |
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| Ruins out in the open |
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| Eugene and Pat on the path to more ruins |
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| More of the path to the ruins (Pat in red) |
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| The four of us on the path |
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| Passing more ruins |
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| The highlight of the ruins was this area where we had to climb a lot of ladders. |
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| Peggy and Pat had gone up part way. More to go! |
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| Here we are on our way to the top. |
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| We made it to the top. Eugene climbed up, too. |
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| Pat sitting down for a rest at the kiva on the top. |
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| Going back down the ladder. |
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| An interesting squirrel we saw on the hike --notice the long ears. |
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| The hotel we stay at in Taos, north of Santa Fe |
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| We visited the Taos Pueblo village |
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| The ruins of the old church and the old cemetery |
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| These are actual dwellings of present-day Pueblo Indians. |
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| The new church in the village |
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| Adobe ovens, one with a door and one with a door. They had to cover the ovens to keep the dogs from going in for shade. |
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| Neat looking group of Pueblo houses (like apartments) |
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| We had to have a guide to go in (she is in white). |
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| More ovens (notice the Indian behind the ovens in front of the turquoise door) |
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| A shot of an Indian artist putting out his wares between the ovens. They didn't want us to photograph the local people. |
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| One of the dwellings showing the color and interesting door decoration. |
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| Many of their shops were their actual homes that they opened to us during the day to sell their wares. |
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| Pat looking at a flute on the wall (notice the oven/range that they would use after they put their artwork away for the evening. |
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| Another view of the pueblos. |
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| A skull hanging in front of a pueblo. |
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| An Indian artisan displaying her wares. |
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| There are several Indians in the shade of the "awning". |
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| Some of the flower arrangements they had for sale. |
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| A scenic view of the houses. |
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| A closer view |
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| This shows the ladders and the color. |
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| Eugene and Pat sitting outside the blue door. |
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| Now we are in front of the red door. |
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| Pat standing on the corner of Rotten Tree Road with her new bag she just bought. |
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| Lunch at cute restaurant in Taos. |
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| More shopping - Pat and Peggy and their bags. |
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| Eugene and Lee trying to stay awake waiting for the shoppers to come back. |
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| Aztec Ruins National Monument |
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| A view of the ruins (much of it has been restored) |
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| Here's Eugene standing on some parts that haven't been restored. |
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| Pat looking through several walls (their doorways were very small). |
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| Looking down into a large kiva |
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| We went down inside a big group kiva that had been restored. |
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| We took our own picture while we were inside the kiva. |
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| A Navajo woman decorating her pottery at the Aztec Ruins. |
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| Before we left New Mexico we saw Ship Rock in the distance. |
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| Actually, we went to this trading post after leaving Canyon DeChelly and Window Rock (the blog puts things where it wants to put them.) |
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| The outside of the trading post (our car is parked in front) |
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| Pat holding a cute bear inside the trading post. |
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| Eugene took a picture of the Indian woman from afar. |
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| Peggy looking at a book in the trading post. |
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| There were hundreds of beautiful rugs available to buy. |
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| Pat ready to buy her Hubbel Trading Post tee shirt |
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| Eugene exploring some of the out buildings on the post. |
