Dolores Mountain Inn

... driving we were averaging about 10-12 miles an hour. Not bad on an unpaved road. We would be able to complete the drive in a couple of hours. And after passing a couple of cars, we didn't feel so much like we had been cast alone onto another planet. At one point the road descended into a wide dry wash. As we drove through it we noticed a large yellow front end loader and a grader a short way off the road seemingly abandoned, a lonely reminder of civilization past. Strange ...

Dernière étape de mon voyage, Mesa Verde; dans l'extrême sud-ouest du Colorado, le plateau de Mesa Verde, qui atteint plus de 2 600 m d'altitude, abrite une énorme concentration 'habitats indiens ancestraux dans des « pueblos » construits du VIe au XIIe siècle.
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Trip 1 - Dolores, Colorado

June 11-14, 2009

Ron's first day of retirement and we are headed to Colorado for a weekend campout with our RV group – Zia Roamers. We are camping at Dolores River RV Park in Dolores, CO which is north and west of Durango. (Dolores is nestled in the foothills of the San Juan Mountains and was a connecting railroad community for decades. It is located close to McPhee Reservoir, the ...

... Cliff Palace, where Mark, our ranger guide, led us on a ticketed tour of the ruins. He was very good, portraying the ruins on a philosophical level while discussing "harmony and balance." We stopped at the lodge for some sunset views and a beer (another of our customs at national park lodges) and headed to the campground amphitheater for a fascinating ranger talk on the Chaco people and their relationship to the area. The ranger ...

We're back!  It took a few days to get our internet hooked up, but we kept ourselves pretty busy during that time with unpacking and our first weekend of exploring.  We got to Monticello on Tuesday the 24th just after noon and we spent the rest of the afternoon unloading our u-haul and starting to put things away in our house.  The next day was pretty much more of the same with a short break each day to take our computers to the local coffee shop to ...

We spent today exploring Mesa Verde National Park, which is the only National Park dedicated totally to archeological sites. Today, the park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States, and they offer a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral ...

... good, and Amy browsed the used books, and we used the internet. We had hoped to find out that Southern Miss would be playing football at Home when we are down that way; unfortunately, they will not. Day 62 - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - Mesa Verde NP - Dylan's Birthday - Two Month Anniversary of the Trip Today was a good day. After breakfast we drove to the Far View Sites. These were mesa top dwellings not cliff ...

HEYY!! Well today we actually managed to do something other then just driving... we managed to get to Four Corners today, and were officially in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and of course Colorado. But before we got there, we stopped on the side of the road and built a mini rock mountain to leave our mark. :]] After we got to 4 corners, we all walked around the edge of it and it was pretty cool. I called Niki while we were ...

We woke to better weather and left Blanding by 9am heading for Colorado. Before we could get too far from Blanding , Alex has already had two blow outs to the rear tire so the ever helpful support crew pulled over and fixed the problem to ensure we had all four bikes on the road. One, two, three states down six to go as we were in Colorado. As ...