An early start this morning to make our way back to Alburquerque in time for Beth and Chrissy to catch their flights home!  After a huge breakfast at the hotel, we hit the road back towards Arizona, but with a detour this time to Acoma.

Acoma is a Pueblo settlement that is the oldest continuously inhabited place in the United States.  The pueble peoples are descended from the Anasazi who once inhabited Canyon De Chelly.  After 20 years of drought, they migrated out in four directions with some ending up high on a hill to establish Acoma.  Acoma means "white hill" - an apt description!  The pueblo people continued their traditional existence there for centuries until the first missionary - a Franciscan monk - arrived, and introduced both schooling, Spanish and catholicism.  Today the people practice a mix of both their traditional religion and catholicism - the Franciscan philosophy and love of nature being a great fit to their traditional culture.

After a one hour tour we raced back to the vans and back to Albuquerque to the airport!  We were in a hurry not only to make sure Beth and Chrissy caught their plains, but as the Navajo Nation is alcohol free, we were keen to share a drink to celebrate our amazing journey and achievements.  Thanks to some flight delays we made it in plenty of time, and enjoyed a late lunch and margaritas before Beth left for her flight.  Chrissy's flight was so delayed she had to stay overnight and share a room with Kerrie, but will make it out tomorrow morning.  After emotional goodbyes we all made our separate ways to our hotels, but weknow that we will see each other again and will always be in touch by email and phone.

It has been a truly incredible week.  Thank you to Winnie, and Marian from Adventures in Good Company, our adventure guides, for another journey of a lifetime.  Most of all thank you to those amazing women who journeyed with us and struggled and won their way along every track, and all those supporters and donors back home who made this possible!