A year ago my brother-in-law (Moody) and his wife went to Death Valley NP to celebrate the New Year, they invited my wife and I to go along. We decided to stay home to attend a masquerade ball that our friends were hosting. The masquerade is an annual event that we’ve been attending since high school. My wife after seeing the pictures from Death Valley immediately regretted our decision to stay home in the boring unadventurous rhythm that we have subjected ourselves to year after year. Almost as a resolution we decided to go on an adventure next New Year’s eve.
New Year’s Eve is a great time of year for my wife and I to travel we are both college students and we are out of school, ready to be away from work and ready to be away from family for a while after the Christmas holiday. We set out for Chaco Canyon NM, a place I had heard about since I was a kid but never put much thought into going there until this past spring when I went to Mesa Verde NP and Canyon de Chelly. I am anthropology major and archaeology especially interests me.
After a long Lunch in Moab UT, a pull-over and warning in Dove Creek CO, and I long wait in a Wal-Mart line in Farmington NM we were racing sunlight to get to Chaco Canyon to set up our tent and make some dinner. We lost the race and set up our tent in the dark. I never mind doing this. I love to go new places in the dark and wake up pleasantly surprised at my surroundings and Chaco didn’t disappoint. There were two small ruins and white table-lands for miles.
This was a great way to set the tone for the day. I was not at all prepared for what I was going to see. After visiting the visitor’s center and rubbing elbows with the other patrons (my wife, and two or three other people) we planned our day, we wanted to see the Pueblo Bonito of course and do a little hiking to some of the more remote locations. We learned very quickly that we were not going to be able to see everything we wanted. The mud from the melting snow slowed us down so much and made it almost miserable to do much hiking but we were able to visit Una Vida + petroglyphs, Hungo Pavi.
New Year’s Eve is a great time of year for my wife and I to travel we are both college students and we are out of school, ready to be away from work and ready to be away from family for a while after the Christmas holiday. We set out for Chaco Canyon NM, a place I had heard about since I was a kid but never put much thought into going there until this past spring when I went to Mesa Verde NP and Canyon de Chelly. I am anthropology major and archaeology especially interests me.
After a long Lunch in Moab UT, a pull-over and warning in Dove Creek CO, and I long wait in a Wal-Mart line in Farmington NM we were racing sunlight to get to Chaco Canyon to set up our tent and make some dinner. We lost the race and set up our tent in the dark. I never mind doing this. I love to go new places in the dark and wake up pleasantly surprised at my surroundings and Chaco didn’t disappoint. There were two small ruins and white table-lands for miles.
This was a great way to set the tone for the day. I was not at all prepared for what I was going to see. After visiting the visitor’s center and rubbing elbows with the other patrons (my wife, and two or three other people) we planned our day, we wanted to see the Pueblo Bonito of course and do a little hiking to some of the more remote locations. We learned very quickly that we were not going to be able to see everything we wanted. The mud from the melting snow slowed us down so much and made it almost miserable to do much hiking but we were able to visit Una Vida + petroglyphs, Hungo Pavi.
