Best Western Turquoise Inn & Suites Cortez

... mesa top dwellings were built from 10 to 500 A.D., and the Anasazi lived in the cliff dwellings around 1200 A.D. As we were driving out tonight, we were thrilled to see a group of wild horses grazing near the road. What a fantastic place!<br><br>I was able to book us on ranger guided tours tomorrow for two large dwellings. Should be a great day!

... migrated around the globe and splintered off into different people groups which eventually re-encountered oone another.  Of course that re-encountering shows the down side of the human condition...  after a while the story seems the same whether between different Indian peoples competing for the same land and resources or between the native peoples &amp; the ...

... if we consider the area was occupied for around 1300 years that is not a lot and no evidence of a disease ravaging through the population. Scientists have ascertained, they were around 5ft high for females and 5ft 3in for males. Females lived an average age of 35 years males, 40 years, 50% of the children died before reaching 5 years of age. They were iron deficient (lack of red meat in the diet) they had dental problems associated with grinding ...

... and capture donations. I decided to make this year an information gathering effort to better prepare for next year when I hope to have many more folks ride along. It will also allow time to better prepare and organize the effort on a national basis and build a proper website. In the meantime, I stumbled across the site travelpod.com which had almost all the pieces that I needed except the real-time ability to show my location. Travelpod.com is like myspace for ...

... and contains many kivas as well as a large dance area. It was thought that the pueblo housed as many as 120 people. As I mentioned, access to the pueblo is down a steep trail cut into the side of the mesa, but then you need to climb ladders to get in, not one of Deb's favorite activities! After touring the pueblo, we had to reverse our course and climb back up to the trailhead to wait for the tram. We stopped ...

... some old wagons.... These people were real trail-blazers. Very interesting. Holly and Zach liked the old school house and did abit of play acting inside it! Cortez turned out to be a bit like Taupo in the sense that it seems a bit of a hub for sports enthusiasts and hikers etc. This was our first town in Colorado. Steve bought a cap for the water tank that I had left behind a few days ago at ...

... our exposed skin. I was hoping that the wind would die down during the day so that we wouldn&#8217;t have to endure it during our tour. If it didn&#8217;t, it would be a very long day.<br><br>The cold conditions made eating a good breakfast essential. We thought we&#8217;d stop at the Belgian Quality Bakery, which was mentioned in Lonely Planet as one of Cortez&#8217;s best places for breakfast. Unfortunately, it was no longer open. So, we went next door ...

... general and flying in particular. They had no compunction about getting on a plane and flying 4,000 miles to visit family, even after September 11th. Their attitude was most refreshing after the pervasive fear which had gripped the county after that incident.<br><br>We finished our breakfast, packed up the car, and paid our bill. We left El Paradero with very good impressions about this bed and breakfast (and an idea or two for remodeling our own home). The rooms were ...