Sunday, October 14, 2012

Day 16 (50): 4 Corners & Mesa Verde


We had intended to get up early but, yeah, that never happens. We are starting to feel much better. After getting coffee & soda at McD’s we stopped at Subway for breakfast. This has been quite a fast food trip, and we’re both ready to eat food from home, especially now that it’s almost soup season. But I digress…

We drove, and drove, and drove. We refilled our sodas at McD’s somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Not exactly nowhere, but in the middle of Native America reservation land. It seems like the entire top right 1/4th of Arizona is reservation land. Anyway, we finally hit our first stop, 4 Corners. You may be familiar; where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah all meet. It, too, is on reservation land and cost $3 per person to get in. Not bad. They’ve got a real nice area done up.
Devin did push-ups in all four states:

I did a backbend:

Mini-B stood the best he could:

And yes, Devin and I were both sore the next day for our ‘showing off’ at the monument.

We looked at all the vendors selling things before jumping back in the car. We kept driving, stopping for a late lunch at Sonic and eventually reaching Mesa Verde.

Mesa Verde is on top of a mesa (seems like a mountain) where there are a lot of ruins and ancient cliff dwellings. You are able to do a self-guided tour of one; One area is blocked off in September; there are two other dwellings to can take a ranger guided tour of but we got there too late. The self-guided tour is really neat, and you are right up in the dwelling:

We then did a driving tour and saw many mesa top ruins and several other cliff dwellings. Here’s the biggest one:

We left the park just at sunset and drove into the night, stopping for a Subway dinner. We went over a mountain and eventually made it to Alamosa, CO.

Today we traveled 514.1 miles across America for a total of 4,951.9 miles on leg 2 and a grand total of 15,476.6 miles across America.

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