These are not the best photos from today but I am working with limited Internet and pic uploading capability for the next day.
This is obviously not Alabama. It’s the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It’s amazing and was a fantastic intro to this part of the country for all of us…we tumbled off the plane, stopped at Abuelito’s New Mexican Restaurant in Bernalillo then came here. Now we’re somewhere else which is very nice in its own right but has no wi-fi..which is probably a good thing.
Look for more on Twitter during the week and on Booked starting Sunday night.
And here? More homeschooling thoughts really soon (although the past week we have all learned heaps about NM history and today it’s been all about the igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks and real live mesas..so?..i guess we started?)…as well as thoughts on all of these very interesting Italy books I’ve been reading….
New Mexico is beautiful! I really recommend Chimayo, just north of Santa Fe. (http://www.elsantuariodechimayo.us/) It’s a fascinating place…..in the “Catholics have been limping with crutches through the desert to bathe themselves in miraculous dirt for over a century” sense. Don’t bother with any of the restaurants on the plaza in Old Town ABQ. In Santa Fe, though, the “Famous Food Cart” on the plaza had a delicious green chili tamale.
You picked an opportune time to escape the South; the temperatures are brutal here. We took a trip to NM when my girls were young and we all loved the area. Bandelier National Monument had some great activity pages for children, and we enjoyed clambering up the ladders of the cliff dwellings. It’s not far as the crow flies from where you are, but I’m not sure you “can get there from here.” Also there were some fascinating museums in Taos. Can’t wait to see your post on Booked.