Day: July 9, 2020

Great Western Road Trip Day 6

Progress: Albuquerque

Mileage: 0

Lunch at El Patio, a Southwestern institution

Quick stop at Rio Grande State Park and Petroglyph National Monument

Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas
Turtles getting some sun in the high wetlands
300-700 year old petroglyphs
Basalt field from an ancient eruption

Great Western Road Trip Day 5

Progress: Santa Fe to Albuquerque

Mileage: 110

Quick detour at Pecos Pueblo National Historical Park, inhabited for several hundred year up until the early 1800’s. Then off to Rio Rancho just north of ABQ

a kiva in use for 200 years
Franciscan Church from 1717
Foundations of the Convento by the church