Mesa Verde

Up and out and heading north across into Colorado today, as we visited Mesa Verde National Park - site number 400 for me! Another exciting milestone.

The site was quite interesting, though a bit similar to yesterday's Chaco Canyon. This was a collection of cliff dwellings - some large communities, others small and modest ones, but they were all located in over-hung cliffs. Very similar style to what we'd seen yesterday but still fascinating. Unfortunately we couldn't go down into these ones, as the tours had finished for the season (they get a lot of snow up here and it was impending in the next few weeks), so we had to content ourselves with just looking from atop the mesas. But still great.

Northwards in the late afternoon to Cortez where we stayed the night, our only night in Colorado.Read more