Los Alamos!
May. 24th, 2010 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxTwo days in a row of internets, amazing!
Packed up, had breakfast, did my chore, and gave back my key.
Then, it was off to see a few more pueblos on the way-ish to Los Alamos.
I tried to see Pojoaque, Tesuque, and San Juan Pueblos, but only sort of managed in each case. I couldn't find any sort of central place to go to ask for permission to be in their villages, so I felt odd being there at all. In at least one or two cases, I found people selling stuff of their homes, and went in even though I was confused, but well. I was confused!
One of the people I found did woodcarving, although not of the kind of thing that I would want - at least not what was for sale. He was in the middle of moving to Santa Fe for economy and cost reasons. I was somewhat surprised to learn that apparently Santa Fe is cheaper than the pueblo!
After this point, I had lunch, and headed toward the people hosting me tonight and tomorrow in Los Alamos.
After an uneventful drive, I found their place. Met the couple hosting me, as well as their cats, one of whom thought I should not leave and should instead pet him a lot. Cute kitty. :)
After moving my bags into the room I'll be in, I headed to Bandelier National Monument, the first in my set of national parks to use my national park pass in. Also, I got my National Park Passport stamped with the relevant stamp.
Bandelier is much more interesting, to me at least, after having gone to Puye Cliff Dwellings and gotten the tour there. I missed the tour for the afternoon at Bandelier, so perhaps it would have been just as good with it as with the info I had from Puye. Regardless, it meant I had more info with which to understand what I was seeing, including when the reconstructed sites weren't accurate (as the guidebook did note, mind you). Also meant I was looking for Petroglyphs from the very beginning, rather than when the book noted they were there, and I knew what to look for. (I know how to see petroglyphs now!)
Also walked the Nature Trail on the way back to the visitor's center, and was quite startled at one point to see a Mule Deer in the middle of the path. Have some pictures, as you might imagine. :)
Due to comments about feeling like you're on my trip with me, I've taken pictures of all the blurbs along the nature trail, as well as attempting to take pictures of what it was talking about when relevant. :) I _like_ being able to give y'all some small sense of being here, too.
Pictures!
Tomorrow, various things in Los Alamos proper. (You may have noticed that I did nothing at all in Santa Fe proper, and very little in Taos proper. I don't really like cities much!)
Packed up, had breakfast, did my chore, and gave back my key.
Then, it was off to see a few more pueblos on the way-ish to Los Alamos.
I tried to see Pojoaque, Tesuque, and San Juan Pueblos, but only sort of managed in each case. I couldn't find any sort of central place to go to ask for permission to be in their villages, so I felt odd being there at all. In at least one or two cases, I found people selling stuff of their homes, and went in even though I was confused, but well. I was confused!
One of the people I found did woodcarving, although not of the kind of thing that I would want - at least not what was for sale. He was in the middle of moving to Santa Fe for economy and cost reasons. I was somewhat surprised to learn that apparently Santa Fe is cheaper than the pueblo!
After this point, I had lunch, and headed toward the people hosting me tonight and tomorrow in Los Alamos.
After an uneventful drive, I found their place. Met the couple hosting me, as well as their cats, one of whom thought I should not leave and should instead pet him a lot. Cute kitty. :)
After moving my bags into the room I'll be in, I headed to Bandelier National Monument, the first in my set of national parks to use my national park pass in. Also, I got my National Park Passport stamped with the relevant stamp.
Bandelier is much more interesting, to me at least, after having gone to Puye Cliff Dwellings and gotten the tour there. I missed the tour for the afternoon at Bandelier, so perhaps it would have been just as good with it as with the info I had from Puye. Regardless, it meant I had more info with which to understand what I was seeing, including when the reconstructed sites weren't accurate (as the guidebook did note, mind you). Also meant I was looking for Petroglyphs from the very beginning, rather than when the book noted they were there, and I knew what to look for. (I know how to see petroglyphs now!)
Also walked the Nature Trail on the way back to the visitor's center, and was quite startled at one point to see a Mule Deer in the middle of the path. Have some pictures, as you might imagine. :)
Due to comments about feeling like you're on my trip with me, I've taken pictures of all the blurbs along the nature trail, as well as attempting to take pictures of what it was talking about when relevant. :) I _like_ being able to give y'all some small sense of being here, too.
Pictures!
Tomorrow, various things in Los Alamos proper. (You may have noticed that I did nothing at all in Santa Fe proper, and very little in Taos proper. I don't really like cities much!)
