Day Twenty-nine: July 8 It occurs to me that I should have arranged this trip to end one day sooner: day 28, exactly four weeks, has a nice round feel to it. But on my last day, I did manage…
Day Twenty-eight: July 7 Homeward bound, today I drove from Taos to Amarillo. The drive was pretty for the first hour or two, then it came down out of the mountains and into the flat plains that I’ll be in…
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I’m going to cover two days in this post— since the second is pretty brief. Day Twenty-six: July 5 (posted July 6) So, what to do with my second day at Mesa Verde? I asked a park ranger for suggestions,…
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Day 25: July 4 (posted July 6) Much like Yellowstone’s hot springs, seeing every single Mesa Verde cliff dwelling and archaeological site in person is pretty cool— but as photographs, they look pretty repetitive. So just as with Yellowstone, I’ll…
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Wi-fi at National Park lodges continues to be hit or miss. I have alleged internet access here at Mesa Verde, but the connection is painfully ssssllllllooooowwww. After the time spent waiting on today’s pictures to upload, I’m going to delay…
Day Twenty-three: July 2 I’m posting early today, for two reasons. First, I realized that over the time I’ve spent in this general area, with only short drives when I changed hotels, I haven’t had a day when I was…
Day Twenty-two: July 1 As planned, I drove south to The Needles district of Canyonlands National Park. It was a longish drive— around an hour and a half each way, for a three-hour “commute” taken out of the day, and…