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Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

by Bobbi on March 28, 2009

This is a highlight of our trip last year, June 22, 2008

A step back in time was on the agenda for this day. In fact a 10,000 year step back. Bandelier National Monument is the most powerful place we have been to yet. After leaving Espanola and driving through some of the most beautiful and rugged country, steep cliffs that plummeted 500-1000 feet (this is my year to face my fears), we drove down those cliffs and arrived in Frijoles Canyon. We stepped onto holy ground, the ground of the Ancestral Pueblo People, where they lived, played and prayed. Hunted and gathered the roots and berries and planted their corn and squash. [click to continue…]

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