Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Imagine all the people John Lennon We spent today at Mesa Verde NP, just a few miles from CO home. Zoe and I woke up early, 5:30, to pick up Ellie and Molly who had spent the night in the tent. From the entrance of Mesa Verde it was a 45ish minute drive to the […]
Read More ImagineEpisode 10 of Ellie Elevates Your National Parks is now available on Google Play, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and many other podcast apps. Tune in to learn more about Mesa Verde National Park. You can also listen right here:
Read More Mesa Verde NP“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 ThingsToday we toured the “quieter side” of Mesa Verde. Our first hike was a tour of Mug House. Each year the park designates a few of the 900+ alcove sites for a special tour. This helps to preserve them by limiting the number of people who enter them. This year it was Mug House’s turn. […]
Read More Good VibrationsToday was another day at Mesa Verde. We did two cliff dwellings. The first one we did was Mug House. At Mug House we got to go inside of the rooms. Unlike the other tours there were only 10 people on this one usually there are 50. The next house we did was Step House. […]
Read More The 18th DayWe woke up alone in the middle of the desert today. I don’t think it was the best night of sleep for any of us. For me the main reason was the moon. Since we were all alone in the campground and it was still really hot when we set up camp we decided to […]
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