Summer Adventures Continue Mesa Verde!

Mesa Verde! 

What could be cooler than touring Ancient Native American dwellings?
Maybe touring Ancient Native American dwellings that on a cliff!

So this was an awesome trip, and not just because I am a huge history geek, and I have always wanted to see it for like forever. It was a 7 hour drive, so it got pretty long. I did get to drive through some parts of Utah that I have never been through before- like Moab. That has been added to my list of places to visit- the red rock is glorious!

Anyway, we got to the National Park and set up camp. The campgrounds are so nice- if you are not a roughing it type of camper- this would be a great place for you to go! They had showers and flushing toilets. It was great! We had my favorite tin foil dinners and blackberry cobbler (dutch oven style- it was HEAVEN!).
My friend told me that I should add dutch oven cooking to my dating resume!

 We only spent 2 days there, but it was worth. We took a tour that took us around all the sites. It nice to get a sense of the history of the place, and how many people used to live there. It was crazy the huge population of people that lived on top of the mesas, and the cliff dwellings!

This was one of the cliff dwelling that we got to tour. The technology that the Natives Americans used was amazing. Not to mention the strength that they had to have to climb down into or up to the cliff dwellings. You can still  see the hand holds that they grooved into the cliff sides. Talk about some super ninja Native Americans!

Coyote is the middle at the back of the picture

Have a longing to see a deer? Mesa Verde is the place! We had deer visit our campsite each night. The deer upon was by my car. I said "Hey Bambi!" and the deer looked up at me! We also saw a coyote (the bottom picture) at lunch on our tour. It was so big, we thought it might be a wolf!

The trip was a success, and I would love to visit again. 3 days was really not enough to see everything. We did take the short drive down to 4 Corners as well. 4 Corners is out in the middle of no where, but worth the drive.