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Apr 29, 2008 - Rio Grande Gorge - Taos, New Mexico

We are now in Aztec, New Mexico and have some service here but not alot. Traveling here from Taos was with almost no phone service and also nothing around except sage brush and a few cattle. We did stop on the way here to check out where Georgia O'Keefe retired. She was a artist known for her landscapes and flower paintings. We downloaded pictures of our hiking trip along the Rio Grande which we hope you like. We are going to the Aztec Ruins tomorrow and checking out a few other spots around here

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Mar 20, 2008 - Aztec Ruins National Monument and the San Juan River

Over two centuries ancestral Pueblo people at Aztec, New Mexico carefully planned and built a large settlement in the 1000s which overlooked the San Juan River. By the time building ceased in the late 1200s the complex consisted of several great houses, tri-walled kivas, small residential pueblos, earthworks, roads and great kivas. It is believed that the settlement was connected to the Chaco Canyon settlement 55 miles away. The people who lived in this settlement in the late 1200s moved south and southeast to the Rio Grande area and into...

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