Monthly Archives: October 2018
Mesa Verde
Get your climbing shoes on! This place it whack! An hour or so outside of Durango Colorado is Mesa Verde National Park. It spans over 52,000 acres, 5,000 archeological sites and 600 cliff dwellings. The bulk of the park sits … Continue reading
Road Tripp’n – Southern Ute Nation
From Chaco Culture Historic Park, we return to the NM 550 northbound toward the Colorado border. For the next three nights we will be staying in the RV park at the Sky Ute Casino Resort in Ignacio, just outside Durango … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado, Cultural Museums, Ignacio, Sky Ute Casino Resort, Southern Ute Nation
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Chaco Canyon – Pueblo Alto Complex
Up early to clear blue skies. Today’s exploration will be the 5.4 mile Pueblo Alto Complex Loop Trail that takes you past a crazy Chacoan staircase up the side of a cliff. The trail starts aback of Kin Kletso. It … Continue reading
Chaco Canyon – Penasco Blanco
From the Supernova pictograph we follow a “lightly” traveled and sparsely marked circuetous trail to Penasco Blanco, which by far, for us was one of our favorites of Chaco Canyon. We could have spent the entire day here. Constantly we … Continue reading
Chaco Canyon
Simply amazing, and worth the time and wear and tear on your vehicle. In the morning we are treated to a spectacular sunrise, followed by slight overcast, which is a pleasant surprise and will prove to be beneficial for the … Continue reading
Los Alamos – “Atomic City”
Los Alamos is a quaint, and during work hours appears to be a “sleepy” city. If it were not for J. Robert Oppenheimer having vacationed in New Mexico in the 1920’s, and there being a “ready made facility” for immediate … Continue reading
Bandelier National Monument
Seeing it was still rather warm when we went to bed, we had left all the windows in the camper, to include the overhead sky-window, wide open. We awoke to an unusually brisk morning, with the outdoor thermometer reading 43°. … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestral Pueblo People, Ancient Architecture, Bandelier National Monument, cliff dwellings, Mini Adventures, puebloan ancestors, Uncategorized
Tagged Alcove House, Ancestral Pueblo peoples, Bandelier National Monument, CCC, Civillian Conservation Corps, cliff dwellings, Frey Trail, Frijoles Canyon, Kiva, National Parks, Native Americans, New Mexico
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Road-tripp’n
As promised, our late September mini-adventure has finallly made it to “press”. What was supposed to be fishing trip to the Green River near the Wyoming/Utah border has been put aside for next year. Apparently we needed to plan ahead … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestral Pueblo People, Ancient Architecture, Bandelier National Monument, cliff dwellings, Dark Sky Park, Los Alamos, Mini Adventures, puebloan ancestors, Uncategorized
Tagged Bandelier National Monument, Dark Sky Parks, Family, Four Corners, Juniper Campground, Los Alamos, National Parks, Native Americans, New Mexico, Pajarito Mountain
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Chaco Canyon – “Where’s Waldo”
After leaving Pueblo Bonito, we get back into our truck and head to the trail head at the end of the “road”. From here, we have three objectives. (1) Find as many petroglyphs as we can on the Petroglyph Trail. … Continue reading
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