Well, this is the last week of my semester at school, and my adventure begins on Saturday morning at 5am.  I have a few exams to knock out this week and then I’m on the road for the next 11 days to visit New Mexico and Arizona with a group of students from school.

The Southwest Adventure is a program at Catawba Valley Community College where are group of students are chosen from an application process to participate in two classes that end up in this 11-day adventure at the end of the semester.  The first class is History 227 (Native American History) and the second class is Sociology 230 (Race and Ethnic Relations).  Our last class meeting in this program is tomorrow afternoon.

I’m excited about this trip.  There are going to be some difficulties, but I believe the overall experience is going to be life-changing.  We have a total of 14 people piling into a 15-passenger van early Saturday morning.  We will put 800 miles on the van on Saturday and another 800 on Sunday before arriving at our first destination Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Part of my responsibilities on this trip include photo documentation.  Some of the places we are going to visit look phenomenal.  I have listed a few links to photos of some of our destinations during the seven days we will spend in this area:

• Acoma Pueblo
• Canyon de Chelly
• Chaco Canyon
• Grand Canyon
• Mesa Verde
• Glorieta Pass
• Petroglyph National Monument
• Loretto Chapel

When I get home I expect to have a ton of photos from this adventure.  We will be blogging our adventure as we go, and I’ll provide a link to that blog later this week.

Until then…

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