Our big adventure today was a visit and tour of Chimney Rock National Monument. It's an Anasazi Indian ruin. It is considered an outlier of The Chaco Canyon ruins. What that means is that it was sort of a suburb. The style of the architecture is the same and the artifacts discovered in and around the ruins were similar to Chaco. The ruins are built in an unusual and difficult place. There is a celestial event that only occurs every 18.6 years that is called "The Northern Major Lunar Standstill". (Seriously, it's a thing) If you were to be standing in the middle of the ruins kiva, you could observe that event between those two chimney rocks when it occurs. The sky was very important to those folks. After that, we had lunch at a local dive and then played 18 holes of disk golf. Tomorrow we move but we don't know where.
Interesting ruins, looks like quite a climb to get there, I find it interesting that you move tomorrow but don’t know where! Guess you just keep on moving eastward.
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