Mexican Hat in Utah
September 26. Decamping from Mesa Verde and its cliff dwellings in Colorado we headed back into Utah following the scenic route (where an artist was literally getting blown away by […]
Category Archives: American Southwest
Moki Dugway: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Moki Dugway is quite the road. I’m not sure why they call it ‘dugway’ instead of ‘highway’ but certainly the experience of careening down its sharp curves is vastly different […]
A Scenic Drive through Southern Utah
September 26. As we were in the process of decamping from Mesa Verde, this old guy came by to check our camping permit. “Boy, you’re in trouble ,” he said, […]
A Hot Air Balloon Fire-up in Mancos, Colorado
One benefit of our long hike to the petroglyphs was that on the way we met a couple of balloonists who told us about a hot-air balloon ‘fire-up’ that evening […]
Reflections on Las Vegas
Reflection in Las Vegas, the glitter capital of the world. When I was at Circus, Circus many years ago they had trapeze artists flying above the slot machines. Now they […]
Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado
Cliff Palace is a complex of cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, USA. After our difficult hike to the petroglyphs we raced down to our campsite for a […]
Petroglyph Trail at Mesa Verde in Colorado
We followed our tour of the cliff dwelling called Balcony House with a hike along the Petroglyph Trail. It took a lot longer than we had expected because of the […]
