I will soon be visiting Mesa Verde National Park for the 3rd time. Given my Native American bloodline, it is a spiritual place for me to contemplate life. I need that right now. Continue reading Mesa Verde – The Third Time Around
I am a dreamer to my core; it is just who I am.That is simultaneously a curse and a blessing.I recognize how things are but imagine them to be better.There is no place better to do that than Mesa VerdeMy first visit there seemed almost spiritual.I could almost see my ancestors living their daily lives.How they got there no one really knows.Why they left is … Continue reading Painting with Words – Mesa Verde
Just a quick note to let you know I just published a new album on Mesa Verde on my Flickr Account. Click here to view it. Continue reading Mesa Verde National Park
  I have been thinking about Mesa Verde lately; maybe because a picture from it is currently my desktop image. 🙂 It has been five years since my last visit. I think it is time for another one. Continue reading Thinking About Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Native Americans were of course the original citizens of America. It is shameful what we did to them to establish our version of America. Mesa Verde is all about Native American ruins from six hundred years ago. The one who helped us understand his heritage was essential to really understanding the spirituality of the place. Continue reading Native Americans
Cortez, CO – Native American Ruins The one place where I feel the most connected to my native American roots is when I am walking through the ruins of Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez Colorado. I can almost feel the inhabitants around me. It is a mystical experience that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime.. Continue reading Mesa Verde…
Yet another picture of my favorite vacation place and that is Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. You get good exercise hiking to the many ruins and when you get there it has a definite spiritual quality. I enjoy just sitting at the ruins and taking it all in. Continue reading My Favorite Vacation Place…
Here we are ending day eleven of our trip heading home. The were a few sites I had picked for visits today but my wife just isn’t feeling up to it. She has really not done well this entire trip. Â Maybe the elevation along with all her many usual ailments was too much for her. So we called it quits this morning. Maybe a future … Continue reading On-The-Road Day 11 — Calling It Quits….
When we left Mesa Verde yesterday we headed northwest into Utah to visit Canyonlands National Park. Â Canyonland is a very different place but also much like the Grand Canyon in its majesty. Here are some pictures: Have to have one last picture of Mesa Verde that I took just the evening before we left. It is a sun drenched view of the Cliff Palace. I … Continue reading On-The-Road Day 10 Canyonlands National Park
Today is a somewhat leisurely day for us. It is our last day at Mesa Verde so I thought I would give you an evaluation of our time here.  This has been one of my favorite vacations for quite a while. Five days in one spot is a record for me. We are usually in the  different-hotel-a-day mode. Being without a TV for all … Continue reading On-The-Road Day 8 –Thoughts about Mesa Verde
For the last hundred years or more the average person went to work for a given number of hours and then went home to his family. He was paid for his efforts and used that money to provide food and shelter. The number of hours demanded for a day’s work has varied over the years but the idea of working for someone else has remained … Continue reading On-The_Road Day 7 –Working 9 til 5…
Being as I recently saw that the person famous for this quote from the L.A. riots died the quote has been on my mind.  It seems that  just getting along is a hard thing to do now days. Politics puts one set of beliefs at war with another set. Each thinks that they are wholly right and the other is at the worst evil.  How … Continue reading On-The-Road Day 6 — Can’t We Just Get Along…
No, the Spruce Tree House is not something up in a tree. It is one of the pueblo ruins found here at Mesa Verde. We made the trek down to it this morning about 9:00am shortly after it opened. We were hoping that it would not be so crowded then and that proved right. But within twenty minutes the hordes came 🙂 First here are … Continue reading On-The-Road Day 5 Mesa Verde – Spruce Tree House
Ok, call me a fool if you want but I was up at 5:30am this morning taking pictures of the sun rise. This was a trial run for later in the week when I get serious about it with a tripod and more patience with adjusting F-stops and speeds. Continue reading On-The-Road Day 5 Mesa Verde Sunrise
We are now settled down in our lodge room at Mesa Verde National Park. The photo below is looking out our room window. We plan to spend many hours out on our deck admiring it. The room and especially the view is everything I expected it to be. We spend the day at the visitor center and just vegging  out in the room. Tomorrow we … Continue reading On-The-Road Day 4 Mesa Verde
Here we are settled in for the night at Cortez Colorado. We check in to the Mesa Verde National Park lodge tomorrow for our five-day R&R and spiritual regeneration. We spent today traversing the Rocky Mountains. It was an interesting trip down mainly two lane roads for over two hundred miles. We crossed the continental divide at Wolf’s Pass. It was 56 degrees there and … Continue reading Colorado On-The-Road Day 3 Cortez Colorado
We spent the last two days eating up blacktop. Traveled about 1200 miles and we are now in Pueblo Colorado. Â We don’t usually like to travel via interstates but since we decided to get here as fast as possible that was the only way to do it. Â I mentioned before that I have a new car for the first time in twenty years. Â It is … Continue reading On-The-Road Colorado Day 2
Mesa Verde National Park Yes, starting today my wife and I are on the road again. This time we will be traveling by car to the great State of Colorado. The majority of our time will be spent at Mesa Verde National Park so expect many photos in the next few weeks. We will be staying at the park lodge for six days of R&R, … Continue reading On The Road Again…..
Mesa Verde is one of my favorite places to visit. It has a truly spiritual feeling to it. We plan on going back either this year or next. Continue reading Mesa Verde, CO – 2009
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