Albuquerque

I hope to eventually get to a computer and catch up, but for now I'll plunge in and attempt to text, which is a skill I'll have to acquire as I go along. Tonight old Chicago friends took me to dinner in Old Town. We ate in a building that was over three hundred years old. It was fantastic to see Wendy and Lawrence, and they showed me so many things that I wouldn't have seen, even in subsequent visits. I spent the afternoon at Petroglyph National Monument, where there are hundreds of petroglyphs visible from the trails. Petroglyphs are pictures carved into rocks. These are carved into the basalt boulders around which the trail winds. There are animals, people and geometric designs. The spiral designs reminded me very much of the petroglyphs I saw on the Big Island of Hawaii. There they marked the birth of a child and the place the umbilical cord was left. I do not know the meaning of the symbol for the people here. It is a haunting place, and amazing to drive minutes from there and find myself again in a city. Tomorrow I travel to Sky City, and then to Sedona.