We started the day with some of Jim Ramakka's famous french toast. He makes it with sourdough bread and cinnamon. We had great conversation about the area and his work as well as all the great things he has done and the people he has met through his career. We decided to head out on our adventures. We headed out to the Salmon Ruins to see some artifacts and some ruins from the ancient people that lived in the area. As usual, I think we were spending too much time since we have so much to see today. But it was interesting. They knew Jim well here too. A picture was hanging on the wall that he had taken. A night sky and moon with red rock formations. It was very well displayed using the metal printing process. It made for a shiny picture.
The ruins were very interesting and they described the area in detail.
Tad was even allowed to walk around outside.
Next we headed to some of the areas where Jim had worked when he was a biologist for the BLM. He worked mostly from memory as we drove these back roads outside of Aztec and along the San Juan River. The drilling sites were everywhere and the "footpad" as he called them, was centered with a cylindrical storage tank. Lots of pipes and signs accompanied these structures.
The landscape was amazing and filled with fall colors. Jim said that we had timed it well as the leaves were at their peak. We couldn't pass up a nice picture of the colors and so we stopped frequently. When Kasey failed to attach his seat belt, the ingenious system of this newer car faithfully reminded the passenger of the infraction with growing volume if the passenger kept ignoring it. And if that was not enough, Jim made sure to let Kasey know of his failure to heed the warning.
The roads were not too bad but as we were approaching what we thought was the cliff with all of the petroglyphs, the roads started to become a little less friendly. At one point when we felt as if we may be in an orchestrated Subaru commercial, we decided that we could not take the chance and we walked.
It was a nice walk but our petroglyphs awaited us elsewhere.
Jim knew exactly where to go but he thought we would run out of time so he opted for some petroglyphs close to the road and still spectacular.
The rock formations are just amazing. I think I see owls in them.
.jpg)
We had enough time to stop at the Wines of San Juan for some wine tasting.
It is a nice comfortable looking spot and they had just had party the night before so everything was quiet.
We had time to goof off with their swings and pick up a pizza at the local grocery store just before the sun set.
No comments:
Post a Comment