By the time I woke up, Mom already had the car loaded and was ready to go. She was ready to get on the road since we had agreed to leave early. So I quickly got dressed and packed so we could hit the road. We had a long drive ahead of us. We decided to head straight south through and go through Albuquerque on the way home this time. There are 2 national monuments around Albuquerque. The first one we stopped at was Aztec Ruins National Monument. When we got there, we went inside so I could get a stamp for my book. The rangers told us about the self-guided tour through the ruins. As we got to each stop, we stopped to listen about the history of the place. The ruins were built and occupied over 900 years ago by the Ancestral Pueblo. It is the largest Ancestral Pueblo community in the Animas River Valley. We got to see buildings such as the “great kiva”, which is a large circular ceremonial chamber.
Our next stop was Petroglyph National Monument. The place the map took us was just a building. Due to covid, they weren’t allowing people inside, but I was able to get a map and my stamp outside. According to the park ranger, there were no actual petroglyphs located where the building was, but there were several walking trails in the area where you could see them. They also had a video playing outside about the sites. We stayed for a little while to watch the video. The video talked about the history of the petroglyphs. They were carved long ago and the meanings of the symbols have changed over time and have been lost to history. They went through some of the current meanings, but I don’t remember what they were.
That was the last stop we made to tour things. We got on Highway 40, and then it was a straight shot to Amarillo. In one spot we hit a ton of traffic and crawled along for over an hour. It led to us not getting as far down the road as we wanted to before we stopped for the night, but we knew we would have to stop at some point. While we were in traffic I scouted ahead and found a Hilton for us to stay the night.
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