Enchanted Mesa Motel Mancos

... ricocheted off the walls of the bowl, appeared to dissipate, then echoed back off the walls of the adjacent rifts after delays of more than 5 seconds. No wonder they were an hour late. <br><br>Unfortunately, the camera battery was charging back at the house. While it was nice to have a light load, the cell phone camera doesn't produce great shots. Better than nothing though.

... finally back in New Jersey. We have many stops planned including parks, scenic spots, museums, etc. The new route will save us approximately a week of travel time. Also, if Jen&#8217;s eye continues to get worse we can bee-line it home and be back in New Jersey before the weekend. I&#8217;ll keep you updated.<br><br>Anyway, after we reached Mesa Verde National Park we registered for a campsite (which is really lovely) and set out to explore the park. Mesa Verde is ...

... No idea what will be needed. Hopefully only a temporary crown until we return. We are catching up on the laundry and Ron is enjoying doing nothing but reading (yes, he is reading a book) and watching the TV (of course). I have had a chance to type up minutes from the Chapter meeting. I am the Secretary this year. Now I will not have to worry about anything there until the August campout since we will not attend the July one.<br ...

... de rondleiding kan het niet meer. Jammer. We volgen dan maar de Scenic Drive die ons langs verschillende uitzichtspunten en ruines voert. Heel mooi allemaal. Terug in Cortez gaan we op zoek naar iets om te eten. Dat blijkt niet eenvoudig te zijn want bijna alles is gesloten. We rijden de hoofdweg af maar vinden niets. Dan maar naar de supermarkt voor het hotel ... ook gene vette. In een andere supermarkt van dezelfde keten hadden we vers gebraden kip en slaatjes gezien maar hier ...

... everyone is doing well at home and i wish i could have taken you all out here for this fun! kate this morning we awoke too early and got going at maybe 8? i'm constantly tired, even when driving. kate and i reinacted the clarissa and ferguson fight where they have super power eyeglasses. thats happened a few times. what else. we played "i'm going to las vegas and i'm bringing..." and came up ...

... a short distance up a little grade to get some pictures was taking our breath away. Literally. We had to wear our leathers and warm clothes. There was snow on some of the peaks and in some of the valleys. They said that it even snows up there in July. Taking some of those sharp curves at 10 miles an hour made it look like those guys that race when the take a turn and their knees almost touch the ground. Then add a slippery wet road and you get ...

... over to meet a group to go tour the Cliff Palace. Any picture of Mesa Verde you see... most likely its of the the Cliff Palace. This is the largest cliff dwelling in northern America. So I met up with the group and headed down the cliff to the dwelling. A beautiful display of buildings of sandstone and adobe greeted us at our destination. There are over 20 round circular rooms ...

... is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. On a snowy, wintery December 18th, 1888, two cowboys, Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason, were riding across the mesa top looking for stray cattle. At the edge of the pinyon and juniper forest surrounding them lay a vast canyon, the same one we could see from this overlook. The only difference is that they were across the canyon near Sun Temple. Through blowing snow they could distinguis ...

Mesa Verde National Park website: http://www.nps.gov/meve/ Got away by 9am and drove up a long winding road to the top of the Mesa, past rocky buttes and fall coloured shrubs dotting the rolling landscape. We stopped at the visitor centre, got the kids their Junior Ranger workbooks and bought tickets to the Cliff Palace tour. We drove down to the parking lot of the Cliff Palace tour, and spotted either a female elk, or a mule deer, happily munching at the side of the ...