It seems the electric setup there is ready to go. The electrician we hired has done a great and prompt job. Also, the dude from the electric company is going to be able to connect our service to the main grid on Thursday, so we are looking forward to that. That's another reason we decided no rush. May as well sight-see now and have fewer days there where we have to run power off of the generator.
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Large -- Medium Gwen, 17 weeks pregnant with twins, in Chaco Canyon. |
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Large -- Medium The first ruin of the day! Hungo Pavi. |
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Large -- Medium A wall at Hungo Pavi. Unlike some of the other ruins, no attempt has been made to "restore" anything here. This is just what's left. |
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Large -- Medium Check out the details -- the drainage (?) holes and the ledge. |
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Large -- Medium Jason at the enterance to Pueblo Bonito, the "big" ruin. |
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Large -- Medium There were lots of rooms, and they all had tiny doorways like this one. |
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Large -- Medium The round rooms were for cerimonial purposes. |
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Large -- Medium So presumably, the square rooms were for more prosaic purposes. |
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Large -- Medium The park service propped up some of the walls to keep the from falling over. |
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Large -- Medium One interesting tidbit is that we could see different building styles in various parts of the Pueblo, as some parts of the Pueblo were built later than others. |
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Large -- Medium Jason is starting up the trail behind Kin Kletso. What trail, you ask? Yes, we sort of wondered that as well. Jason decided not to take the dogs. |
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Large -- Medium Here he's about halfway up the canyon wall. Yes, the "trail" goes up through that crevice. |
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Large -- Medium Here's a picture from the top of the canyon wall of Kin Kletso. If you look at the large image, you can see Gwen with the dogs at the very left of the image. |
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Large -- Medium A look to the left. You can see the dirt trail we walked to get to Kin Kletso. In the large image, you can see the XTerra parked in the lot where the road transitions from dirt to pavement. |
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Large -- Medium Here's a look across the canyon. |
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Large -- Medium After leaving Chaco Canyon, we found a good stop for the dogs on some public land. |
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Large -- Medium The XTerra is in the background. |
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Large -- Medium The back of the car was just a bit crowded. Usually the dogs don't pile together to sleep. |
