Sky City

It is 32 degrees here in Grants, NM this morning. Nancy has a dentist appointment at 10AM and then we will head west. I think it will warm up after we get over the continental divide at Gallop, NM.
Yesterday my cousin Arlene took a day off from work and toured us around some of the things in the area. We went to Sky City. It is supposed to be the oldest continually inhabited village in the US. It has been inhabited since 600AD by the Ancona Pueblo Indians. It is on a Mesa and has no electricity or running water. The priests of the village live there year round but the rest of the people have other homes on the reservation. They go there for many sacred celebrations and others live there part time. They have a road up to the village now but in earlier times it was only accessible by foot trail up the side of the mesa (top photo). We also went to another area were we viewed an arch rock formation and and a mountain shaped like an old lady.