June 8, 2010 -- Some of the best 'twisted travels' can be in your own backyard. This morning with friends we left the house here in Los Lunas at 4:30a.m. to run and greet the sun just 30 miles away just south of the Laguna reservation.
Celebrating our friends 18th birthday we ran for about 1.5 miles down the dirt roads to the cliffs of lava tubes and arroyos.
My running buddy and I commented that this was the perfect adventure after having run to Tome hill yesterday and still feeling the effects on our knees and calves. Bolder hopping works muscles in new ways and the stretching and climbing felt good on sore muscles.
Soon we would discover long forgotten petroglyphs on the canyon walls. Finding sacred and ancient symbols has become a fetish for me and I'm not sure I will ever tire of discovering a new panel.
Different time periods seemed to be displayed on the canyon walls beginning with ancient and then the more modern Spanish colonial glyphs represented by warriors and missions.
Even the molted skin of a snake in the brush proved an exciting discovery.
As the trains from the BNSF rolled down the adjacent tracks the silence of the morning proved that the new day was now upon us.
What an incredible way to begin the day.
