Cortez, CO
We left Moab on Monday Sept. 26 heading for Cortez, CO.
Freddy doesn't care about the scenery, it's nap time. I've lost my navigator.
Halfway to Cortez. You can see our motorhome between the 2 signs.
Mesa Verde National Park is only 9 miles from our campsite. It was home to Ancestral Puebloans around 1400 years ago. They lived in holes with a roof on top of mesas. They later built homes out of adobe over the holes. They made whole villages all under one roof.
The most prominent of the mesas.
Park Point is the highest point in the park, 8600 feet. The lowest is about 6800 feet. Every trail we went on was up and down. We had to stop a lot and catch our breath.
The panoramic view was spectacular.
The Puebloans started building their villages in cliff side caves and recesses.
Such as these 2 villages.
They continued to occupy these villages for approximately 700 years. No one knows for sure why they finally deserted it.
Far View communities consists of 5 villages built on top of a mesa. They built a reservoir for watering their crops. These communities date back to about the year 750.
Some of the had over 150 rooms.
The round rooms are the original holes they lived in.
Today, Monday, we left Cortez. On the way to Gallup, NM is the only place in the USA that four states meet.
Here we are standing on four states at one time, CO, UT, AZ and NM. It is on a Navajo reservation.
The plaque where the four states meet.
Center of plaque.
Entering NM. We have been in four states today and only drove 144 miles.
This is Ship Rock. We first saw it from Mesa Verde SP, 44 miles away.
Unknown rock along the way.
Now we are in a Walmart parking lot for the night. Tomorrow we go to Albuquerque, NM for the balloon fest.
Freddy doesn't care about the scenery, it's nap time. I've lost my navigator.
Halfway to Cortez. You can see our motorhome between the 2 signs.
Mesa Verde National Park is only 9 miles from our campsite. It was home to Ancestral Puebloans around 1400 years ago. They lived in holes with a roof on top of mesas. They later built homes out of adobe over the holes. They made whole villages all under one roof.
The most prominent of the mesas.
Park Point is the highest point in the park, 8600 feet. The lowest is about 6800 feet. Every trail we went on was up and down. We had to stop a lot and catch our breath.
The Puebloans started building their villages in cliff side caves and recesses.
Such as these 2 villages.
They continued to occupy these villages for approximately 700 years. No one knows for sure why they finally deserted it.
Far View communities consists of 5 villages built on top of a mesa. They built a reservoir for watering their crops. These communities date back to about the year 750.
Some of the had over 150 rooms.
The round rooms are the original holes they lived in.
Today, Monday, we left Cortez. On the way to Gallup, NM is the only place in the USA that four states meet.
Here we are standing on four states at one time, CO, UT, AZ and NM. It is on a Navajo reservation.
The plaque where the four states meet.
Center of plaque.
Entering NM. We have been in four states today and only drove 144 miles.
This is Ship Rock. We first saw it from Mesa Verde SP, 44 miles away.
Unknown rock along the way.
Now we are in a Walmart parking lot for the night. Tomorrow we go to Albuquerque, NM for the balloon fest.
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