{"id":3568,"date":"2026-02-07T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:24:16","slug":"home-away-from-home-chimayo-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"Home Away from Home &#8211; Chimayo, NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been my good fortune to enjoy the hospitality of my friends, Debbie and Liz, in Chimayo, NM, for the past nine years and be a guest in their adobe home along the Santa Cruz River.\u00a0 Their home adjoins the Malpais, i.e. the BLM badlands where I hiked many an hour.\u00a0 [All photos <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\" alt=\"copyright symbol\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a> Max Vollmer, Click on any image to enlarge]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3569\" style=\"width: 2834px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chimayo-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3569\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chimayo-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2834\" height=\"2315\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie and Liz&#8217;s house, Chimayo, NM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3570\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20241017_103705294_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3570\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20241017_103705294_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The guestroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3573\" style=\"width: 4008px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20241017_161603313_BURST001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3573\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20241017_161603313_BURST001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4008\" height=\"3006\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Malpais with cholla cactus in the foreground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found many potsherds on the south facing slopes of this rock formation, typically with a white clay slip and black painted designs, but occasionally in red polychrome.\u00a0 The nearby Santa Cruz river would have provided water for the small settlement.\u00a0 The Jemez mountains are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3574\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20230424_132124589.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3574\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20230424_132124589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Malpais. Site of prehistoric settlement, 1000 to 1200 A.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been my good fortune to enjoy the hospitality of my friends, Debbie and Liz, in Chimayo, NM, for the past nine years and be a guest in their adobe home along the Santa Cruz River.\u00a0 Their home adjoins the Malpais, i.e. the BLM badlands where I hiked many an hour.\u00a0 [All photos Max Vollmer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Away from Home &#8211; Chimayo, NM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}