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Published: August 2nd 2009
Well, we sadly left Durango and started once again on our journey south to Texas. It was a beautiful sunny day and we saw the temperatures climb from 15C in Durango at 9 am to 36C in Socorro at 6 pm! The drive was uneventful though we did see some astounding things. We had some extra time to stop today so when we saw the turn-off for Chaco Canyon, we just had to go there. It is a canyon that had a Puebloan culture (Chaco Culture) and there were about 6 or 7 different pueblos all within communicating distance of each other in the canyon. All that are left is ruins but it's so very interesting. We stopped at the Visitor Center and looked through the museum and then had a delicious lunch that Ricci packed for us. The road in and out was about 20 miles (36 km) long and most of it was unpaved! After we left Chaco Canyon we continued south to Socorro with one more stop at the Isleta Mission. This mission was founded in 1612 by Spanish Catholic Franciscans. The town (pueblo) itself was a maze of adobe houses and it took us a bit of
River wash
The sign at this wash said "Do not cross if there is ANY water in the wash" Flash floods can kill!time to find the church! We eventually found it but went to a gift shop first to see if they had a small piece of Isleta pottery to add to my collection of SW Indian pottery. Luckily, they did! Affordable, too! After our visit to the gift shop we went back to the church and went inside where we were privileged to participate in a small prayer liturgy for the native soliders in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was very moving. After the church we eventually found our way back to the interstate and got to Socorro right around 6 pm. When we went out to find a place for dinner we drove down to the plaza in Socorro to see what was happening but it was shut up as tight as a drum! So we drove back toward the hotel and found a wonderful Mexican restaurant and had a fantastic meal. After the meal we drove over to the mission church in town and got a couple of photos. Tomorrow we will finally get to Rick's! We are very excited!
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so, does that mean ....
... that the residents of chaco canyon were in range for that cell phone guy? " can you hear me now?" lol as far as that river wash goes, I have always been tempted to pee in one of them and see if it really becomes deadly :) the pics are lovely. what you are traversing in a day took weeks in a conestga. I hope you hace AC