Advertisement
Published: August 7th 2007
Edit Blog Post
Day Four, Sunday, July 1, 2007
Woke up refreshed and ready to begin a new day of travel! The hotel offered a continental breakfast, just like at the hotel we all stayed at for Molly’s graduation, complete with waffles, but Belgian ones this time not the four little ones. Very tasty too!
Came back to the room to get ready to leave and Elan lied down and promptly fell asleep! The room was too hot, for him, last night when we got in so he turned the AC on but only put it on high fan not the cooling part. One must also direct the vents to go out into the room, not up into the curtains. With the room cool enough for him he can sleep some more. Me? I’m sitting as far from the AC as possible with layers on of course!
Mesa Verde was wonderful! It was especially great to see a place that one of my students chose as their structure to draw and research. We walked to Spruce House, which was a short ways from the museum. The signs say strenuous walk, only for those in good physical condition! Hot, dry, sunny weather- exactly
what I like to be in. We also stayed to see the Hopi dancers perform. They give permission to be photographed there. The man who spoke said this was a group of younger people learning the dances, the one they did for us was a rain dance. The audience was asked to respectfully remove their hats when the dancers came out and danced. This brought more than a few groans in the group but most complied.
After Mesa Verde we drove southwest to Four Corners, we were in Colorado, no wait, New Mexico, maybe Arizona? Utah? A few pictures later and walking around to see the Navajo vendors while Elan ate some fry bread we drove back to Cortez to head north to Moab. I saw lots of hematite necklaces with the vendors that looked suspiciously like ones I saw being sold at the Saturday Market so I asked where they got the hematite… Alaska!
We drove through the Ute reservation to get to Four Corners, there seemed to be a wide variety of homes, from very nice ones to many trailers that had seen better days. Lots of horses on the ranges, some cows as we drove
north. In one place we smelled a most awful smell, skunk Elan said, another reason he’s glad to be going back to Alaska.
We just crossed into Utah, tried to call Molly but there is no service here… There wasn’t any in Four Corners either! Mountains off in the distance on both sides of the highway. And flat farmland everywhere else, seems almost familiar but it is not the prairie. Less cattle here, more horses. Saw a flock of sheep!
Arrived at Arches National Monument around dusk, went in and saw the park at its most beautiful I think. Good sunset and the sandstone shapes were (insert your own adjective of wonder here). We also had some fun with the photos too!
We did think we’d get a bit farther along on our journey but it is all good and we did almost 350 miles though some of was back and forth to Cortez this morning!
Continued to play phone tag with Molly as the service kept going in and out… Don’t worry Molly; we’ll catch up with you tomorrow!
Advertisement
Tot: 0.047s; Tpl: 0.012s; cc: 13; qc: 27; dbt: 0.0205s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1mb
Kathy
non-member comment
Beautiful pictures!