On the morning of December 3, 2017, I was delighted to visit a small petroglyph site at the Abó Unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.  The Abó Ruins are a few miles west of Mountainair, New Mexico, where I had spent the previous night.  (As a sidenote, Mountainair is a delightful little town, with lots of folk art to be seen on the buildings there.)  I had read a brief mention of a petroglyph site near the ruins, but was unable to find any pictures or concrete directions on the internet.  So I showed up at the Abó Ruins bright and early that morning to find that I was the only visitor and that there was one young man there looking after the place.  Bottom line, it took a while, but I talked him into locking up the visitor center and showing me the petroglyph site.  We hiked about three quarters of a mile from the ruins, going cross country, since there was no maintained trail.  We spent about 45 minutes at the small site.  The young man asked me lots of questions, and we had a good time together that morning.  Here are some of the pictures I took that day.  To see my blog post about the trip that included my visit to Abo (titled “A Haphazard Rock Art Trip to Soothe the Soul”) look here.