Day 2: Santa Fe, NM to Mesa Verde National Park, CO

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Today we drove from Santa Fe to Mesa Verde National Park via Pagosa Springs and Durango, CO. We traveled 262 miles in about 6 hours (we stopped in Durango to have a picnic). The best part about the drive was the scenery. The worst part about the drive was the traffic and construction in Durango.

When we arrived at Mesa Verde, the first thing we did was explore the Mesa Top Sites. Ancestral Puebloans lived in Mesa Verde starting around 550 A.D. until about 1250 A.D. In the Mesa Top Sites you can see how their architectural style evolved from pithouses dug into the ground to 50-room cliff dwellings.

We're looking forward to tomorrow when we depart for Moab, UT and Arches National Park.

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