[La Enchiladita]

I am just so excited to meet other FReepers who know and love Chaco, i.e., have got the "Chaco Fever." I rarely, if ever, meet anyone who knows what the heck it is.

This has been nice. I hope to return there someday.

[conservativeharleyguy]

A couple of years ago, I watched a PBS special on Chaco that was about the precision of the celestial alignments of the sites to each other and surrounding features ("Mystery of Chaco Canyon").

There is another film in the same series called "The Sun Dagger".

Lots of great animations and computer modeling/simulations.

I wished my father was alive to see them. He would have been very pleased.

When the "Sun Dagger" was first "discovered", he was astounded.

He said they had seen it hundreds of times, and no-one at that time made the leap of assumption that it was anything of it's greater significance.

They thought it was just another odd petroglyph.