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Apr 20, 2012 - Milan NM

We wheeled out of the campground right at 10:00 and headed one exit east on I-40, then south and west on Hwy 53 towards the El Morro National Monument. It has been a national monument since 1906 and while there isn’t a whole lot there, what is there is really neat. At the base of the cliffs is a year-round pool of water that has drawn Pueblo Indians and travelers from the days of the early Spanish explorers. The Pueblos carved petroglyphs in some spots on the cliffs, but the majority of the carvings in the sandstone are from when the...

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Apr 19, 2012 - Milan NM

We left the campground north of ABQ right at 9:30 and pulled into the booming metropolis of Milan NM right at 11:00. The campground isn’t much to look at, but at $21 a night, it will do for a couple nights. We had planned to do some tourist things about 45 miles away, but it wouldn’t work out timing-wise so we figured we would just hang out today and do our touristy things tomorrow, but we got pretty bored so off we went with a revised scheme. We decided to go check out El Malpais National Monument which is only about 15 miles from here....

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