Petroglyphs

Well it's Sunday night. My mom and brother just left about 30 minutes ago. We had a good day out. Went to the Petroglyph National Monument here in Albuquerque, NM. We spent about 1.5 hours doing one trail in the afternoon and decided we should come back another time - maybe in the Fall! Perhaps we'll do it again in the summer, but it will certainly have to be in the morning. Here are a couple of pictures to whet your interest.





Although the park ranger said the trail we chose would have close to 600 Petroglyphs to view, we came up a little shy of that number. We didn't do the whole trail and also didn't spend too much time in any one given spot. I felt like heading back to the visitors center and telling Ranger that 25 could be viewed with the naked eye. We would need binoculars to see the other 575. And for that matter, we wondered how many rock carvings are only visible from the top of any given rock and not from the trail. I'm sure we'll try the Rinconada Canyon Trail again.

After that, we paid a visit to an Asian food market, ate Vietnamese food, then made pit stops at Wally World and K-mart. All in all, a pretty good afternoon. Got to get outside and hang out with mom and my bro.

As a side note, even I'll have to say that I'm amazed at the random photo I've posted. A little bit of luck I would say. The right side image is looking into an empty home up for sale, the left side of the image is the reflection off the window of the front yard area. LUCK I tell ya.

Well that's it for this post. Cheers All - and oh, I'm taking tomorrow off of work! I could get used to this . . . short work weeks and all . . .