http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Brian+Vuillemenot Travel Brian Vuillemenot Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=45100&ca=Travel In a remote canyon in northwest New Mexico lies the center of ancestral Puebloan culture and the largest pre-Columbian ruin north of Mexico. Chaco Canyon served as a cultural, administrative, and economic hub for the peoples of the Four Corners region from approximately 850 until 1250 AD. Major deve... Travel Brian Vuillemenot Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=40685&ca=Travel To most, sand dunes are as synonymous with deserts as water is to an ocean. However, the deserts of the southwest are certainly no American Sahara. Sand dunes cover but a small percentage of the total land area, with the vast majority made up of silica, composed of weathered quartz. What makes the w...