but why did the Anasazi only build ruins?

Back from a weekend trip to Road Canyon, which is in the Cedar Mesa area of Utah. (I love living so close to such cool stuff! It's only about 3.5 hours away.) We had a great time camping in our Sportsmobile, hanging out, reading, drinking beer, and hiking down into the canyon and looking for ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings. (We found some nice ones!)

Only problem was that I got bitten to death by gnats, which we weren't expecting to have hatched out quite yet - it seems to be an early summer all over the southwest, what with our snowpack level and river levels about what we normally get in mid-June. Alas. The bites itch like a %$#@!, too.

Ten photos here on my Flickr page.