Just wanted to relax today so I drove about 35 miles west to the nearest town, Aztec. There’s a National Monument named Aztec Ruins. Must be named after the town because the ruins are similar to the ruins at Mesa Verde. Both were built by Ancestral Pueblo Native Americans. Each set of ruins have Kivas, the round ceremonial rooms.
A large, reconstructed kiva.
The farther I went into this series of rooms, the cooler it got. It was 90 outside but felt like 70 in the innermost rooms.
It’s a large compound, room after room used for ceremonies and trading by the people living in the area. Not many people lived in this structure.
