Bandelier National Monument,Los Alamos, NM

​Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between 1150 and 1600 AD

We were here 2 nights and the time flew by.  We hiked about 7 miles around the park and the scenery was beautiful.

Wendy is carefully planning the next days hike.

She has determined I need a few more thousand miles of hiking to look like this :(

When the goin' gets tough, the tough get goin'

I was trying to get tough but this is all I could come up with.

Here's one a little more friendlier.

Mature Ponderosa Pines produce vanillin, used in the artificial vanilla.  They smell very nice.  I wonder how a forest of them would smell... probably like a big vanilla ice cream cone :)