7 April, Tuesday - By 0845 we were packed up and out of Red River on our way through Taos again. The road descended for a while and paralleled the Rio Grande in a canyon. Then past Espanola we began climbing to the mesa-top location of Los Alamos. We spent a couple of hours in the Bradbury Museum watching both movies and looking at the displays of history and current explorations. We left without having exhausted the museum's possibilities.
From there it was only a short drive to Bandelier where we descended the CCC road to the valley bottom. The visitor center provided us with a guide brochure and we set out on the 1.2 mile main loop to see the Ancient Pueblo People (formerly known as Anasazi) ruins (AD 1200-1400). There were longhouses, cliffhouses, kivas and caves (cavates - "cave eights") as well as petro- and picto-graphs. It was 
short-sleeve weather in the sheltered valley and later we saw the temp climb into the 70's near Albuquerque. We took the Jemez Mountain Byway around and through the Valle Caldera and past some really red rock cliffs. Around 1800 we checked into the La Quinta Northwest in Albuquerque, cleaned up a bit and then met Steve Hill for barbecue at the County Line near the Sandia tramway base. Great meal and great to catch up with Steve!
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