After a hearty breakfast at La Fonda in Santa Fe, the Detourists boarded Harveycars for Day 2 of the first Indian Detour. First stop was Tesuque Pueblo, six miles north of Santa Fe. The fifteen-minute stop at Tesuque allowed the dudes time to look around and purchase a "rain god" pottery figure, "strange little creatures that look like space aliens holding buckets between their legs." They may have seen the Eagle Dance, shown here in front of the church at Tesuque.
Heading north, the next stop was at the Puye Cliff Dwellings, original home of the Santa Clara Pueblo people. The ruins here are awesome with caves carved out of the cliff and multi-story pueblo ruins on the mesa above the cliffs. Fred Harvey constructed a stone lunchroom at Puye in 1927 for the Detourists when the lunch stop at Española did not live up to Harvey standards.
Descending from the Puye Cliff Dwellings, the next stop on the tour was Santa Clara Pueblo next to the Rio Grande. Santa Claran ancestors gave up on Puye in the late 1500s when drought forced them down to the riverside. At Santa Clara the dudes marveled at all the beautiful pottery creations for sale.
Just a few miles north of Santa Clara the tour stopped at San Juan Pueblo. The Detourist Couriers explained to the dudes that San Juan Pueblo was the home of Po'Pay, the leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The Revolt united all of the New Mexican Pueblos and the Hopis of Arizona to drive the Spanish out of their lands. The Spanish fled south to Mexico and did not return to reconquer the pueblos until 1692. Here we see corn drying on the roof of a San Juan Pueblo home. From San Juan the tour headed back south to Santa Fe for another relaxing night at La Fonda Hotel on the Indian Detours route.