Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
This morning morning we woke up at 6:45 grabbed breakfast and were off to mug house. We did the mug house tour last year and it was just as amazing. Our Ranger was ranger Kialey. She was very informative. She told us that it is named mug house because when the wetherill brothers found it […]
Read More Mug HouseMesa Verde. We did our last tour today and once again were blown away by the feelings of wonder. Last March Zak snagged us tickets for the Mug House tour. This tour is special. Only given twice a week during the summer season and only in even years. The group size is restricted to 10 […]
Read More Day 29: Mesa Verde“I can’t wait . . . castle on the hill” – Ed Sheeran Today was pretty low key as far as road trip days go so this will probably be a shorter post. We started our day on Wetherill Mesa with a hike to Mug House. Like our tour of Square Tour House yesterday we […]
Read More Castle On The Hill“See I can see good things for you and I” – The BoDeans First full day in Colorado. Best day of the trip? I don’t know, but it keeps looking worse and worse for Kansas City. We were up at the crack of dawn – 5:45 AM – in order to make it to the […]
Read More Good ThingsWe get up early almost every day, rarely sleeping in past 7. Like we’ve said, this isn’t a vacation, it’s a trip, an adventure, a series of experiences. It would be nice to sleep in one day! Or two. Well, today was not that day. The alarm went off at 5:45 and we were ready […]
Read More Day 28: Mesa VerdeToday we got up at 7:00 and had the Hampton Inn breakfast. Something I learned today is always check ✔ if your shirt 👕 is inside out. My shirt 👕 was sewn inside out so we had to use the only scissors we had to cut ✂ off the tag. Then we drove to Aztec […]
Read More Day 27 and we saw 👀 more ruins 😋 and HAPPY 4TH OF JUlY😜Today we got up ☝ at 5:45 and drove to mesa verda. We were the first ones to the trailhead but were soon greeted by another family. We started the trail 👣 there were two ladders. On one of leaders you have to walk 🚶 on the side of a cliff and then get on […]
Read More Day 28 and we went to masa verda and I meet a new friend who’s name is Hope.ÂThis morning we woke up at 5:45, picked up breakfast, and headed to Mesa Verde. We did a ranger-guided tour of square tower house. We got to climb on ladders and the rock. That was super fun. The end was really exciting us and another girl on the tour were looking for pottery around the […]
Read More Mesa Verde National ParkYesterday’s Post: This morning we woke up and had the hotel breakfast. Then we drove to Aztec Ruins national monument. The kiva was huge. We got to go inside of it. Even though it was rebuilt they plastered the wall and most don’t do that. It was amazing to see all of the original things […]
Read More Aztec ruins National Monument 4th of July and Cortez“And we walked off to look for America” – Simon and Garfunkel Today I discovered that the best fireworks display in the country happens in Cortez, CO. Fireworks shows are pretty much all the same, except this one. We found a spot in the grass near the place where the fireworks were going to be […]
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