Up in the Air
Today's adventure took us to Acoma/Sky City, a thousand-year-old pueblo built on top of a mesa. This time I have a few pix forthcoming, as they allow cameras if you pay the fee and follow the rules.
There is a new state-of-the-art visitor center below the pueblo, and a bus takes you up the "road John Wayne built" (it was graded so he could film here) for the guided tour. Our guide went by the name of Gary, although he told us his true name as well - which I couldn't quite follow. As he took us around the pueblo he told us many informative, dramatic and funny stories about the place and its history (i.e: One of the three water catchbasins on the mesa has a tree growing next to it, the only tree on the grounds... he said he calls it the "Acoma National Forest".) And if you visit the website above you'll see images of their famous style of pottery, which was for sale all over the place, about every 50 yards.. in addition to fry bread and sweet fruit pies that were made that morning. And the visitor center cafe makes an excellent Green Chile stew, too.
We wanted to walk down the old path (which is permitted) but the wind came up, and by the end of the tour the sand was flying hard enough to sting - and they closed the footpath for safety reasons.
We ended the day by visiting some of Krystal's friends from back when... tomorrow, the road home calls us! (Just don't ask what it calls us...)