Tag: Colorado Plateau
Posted in Arizona, Colorado, National Park Service, New Mexico, The World, Travel On The Dirt, Unesco World Heritage Site, United States
Tagged Arizona, Bandelier, Cliff Dwellings, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Mesa Verde, National Monument, National Park, Native American Ruins, Native Americans, Navajo National Monument, New Mexico, Pit Houses, van life, vanlife
April 24, 27, 28, & May 1, 2019. Last spring we visited Mesa Verde National Park, and Bandelier and Navajo National Monuments. These sites contain prehistoric dwellings of the ancestral Pueblo peoples. I’m combining the three sites into one post….
April 18 – April 19, 2018. Duwan calls it “hundering”. It’s a mixture of hunting and wandering, often triggered by a chance conversation with a fellow traveler. Back at Gold Butte I was practicing accordion songs. I thought our only…
Posted in National Park Service, Travel On The Dirt, Utah
Tagged Canyon, Cayonlands, Colorado Plateau, National Park, NPS, Petroglyphs, Slickrock, Utah
April 15 – April 16, 2018. Sometimes you just have to see it for yourself. In the 1950s the Department of the Interior was petitioned to protect the canyonlands. The effort didn’t gain much traction, though, until Interior Secretary Udall…