Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument – Quarai (click to enlarge)
After stopping at the Salinas Pueblo Mission National Monument in Mountainair NM, you drive to the three pueblo sites. Because of time and where I was headed (Santa Fe) I only had time to visit two of the three sites (I skipped Abo). This is the Quarai site.
I found it interesting that the Quarai site was made of red rock material, while the Gran Quivira site was gray stone. I guess they used what was available, and geology provided for different colored material at the two site.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument – Quarai: N34 35 45.94 W106 17 45.43
New Mexico Road Trip Locations (click to enlarge)
Here is a map of the photography locations I visited during a recent business trip to New Mexico. This is a screen capture from the Map Module in Adobe Lightroom. The Map Module makes it easy to visualize where you have been and select images from a certain location.
Using the numbers in the boxes as references, here are the locations I visited. Future posts will cover each of these locations in some detail. Starting in Albuquerque and proceeding clockwise:
37 – On this trip I focused on the old motel signs along Route 66 in Albuquerque.
75 – Old Town Sante Fe
22 – Pecos National Historic Park
67 – Fort Union National Monument
34 – Cadillac Ranch
6 – Cannon Air Force Base
11 – Taiban
3 and 3 – Billy the Kid Grave Site and Museum
46 – Carlsbad Caverns (not shown)
26 – Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument – Gran Quivira
5 – A random ranch on the way to Gran Quivira
7 – Mountainair
21 – Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument – Quarai
I visited these locations over two weekends, and lots of miles on my rental car!
