Another trip down

Well we finally made it home, for now. Looking back, our trip spanned 6 states, 5576 miles, 9 National Parks, 3 State Parks, 2 National Recreation Areas and countless tourist traps. We experienced the 121 degree heat of the desert and the chill of San Francisco Bay. We got to see family and a bunch of old friends along the way and even made some new friends.

The 4Runner has now officially driven from coast to coast, from the north most point in Maine to the southern point in California. During the trip we collected t-shirts, post cards, coffee mugs, one speeding ticket and over 4000 pictures.

It is impossible to tell about everything we saw and did and for every one thing we saw we missed two things to see, but we eventually ran out of time. That is the great thing about traveling though, we have a reason to go back and see everything else.

Thanks for following our travels, feel free to post any questions and we will keep you posted when we hit the road again.

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Location:Denver, Colorado

Mesa Verde

From Lake Powell we made the trip back into Colorado stopping by Four Corners on our way. The Four Corners monument is currently under construction, so you can wander around in a circle between 4 states, but you can't stand in all four until September when they are supposed to finish the renovations on the monument. From what we saw there is no way it will be finished by then, but who knows. We did get really good fry bread though!







After a fairly disappointing trip to the Four Corners we made the 50 mile trip to Mesa Verde.This was Mesa Verde when we rolled in on Sunday night.



Our trip into Mesa Verde, outside the road construction, was great. We got to wander around a bunch of the archeological sites and got good views of most of the cliff dwelling sites. We ran out of light before we ran out of things to look at but we were not worried because we had the entire next day to see all the things that we missed, plus we were all set to go on some ranger guided tours of some of the dwelling sites. So we headed back to camp and we were in for the night.







This was Mesa Verde Monday morning when we woke up to go on all of the tours we had booked.


As you can tell it was a drastic difference from the day before, but being the diehard tourists that we are, we made the best of it and into the Cliff Dwellings we went, at least for a while. We did the first tour and a few more overlooks before we were chased off by the weather and the rain. Most of the sights we wanted to see were being restricted by the rain so we added Mesa Verde to the list of the places we're going to come back to and we pointed the truck for home.













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