dyslexia and diane do Chaco Canyon

So, did Fred meet Julio?????

Haven't you heard? They fell in love, got engaged, and is now married.

Already?


Whoopie...

Though, CI, I have my doubts.

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that Julio made it! (I confess to reading this thread mostly just to find out.)

Hubby, son and I will be driving through Santa Fe on our way to Pagosa Springs (staying in a friend's cabin there) & Durango in early August. We wanted the boy to see Mesa Verde...but...is Chaco Canyon a better experience?

Eva
Eva, Albuquerque is not a very long drive from Sante Fe. About 60 miles. Can you make the detour when you are traveling?

BBB

Diane & dys


Just wonderful to share your travels & adventures with you! More please, more!

And I can't tell you how relieved I am about Julio! How could that poor, distraught woman ever leave without him? Phew!

as Roger so tactfully put it, Julio's owner is a dingbat.

did you have hookups at the camp or was it "dueling gennies"?

I saw a story about new "fuel cell" generators that have been developed for RVs.

services at chaco are 2 one-holers and 2 two-holers. (there is some drinking water available at the visitor center) we did run our gen a couple of times for the ac.

Re: Eva


I don't know. It's tempting, though! Will ask them and see if there's time.

Re: Eva


Eva, WOO HOO!

Just let us know so we can arrange a gathering in honor of your visit. We even will include the dogs.

BBB

Eva - chaco and mesa verde are very different sites, in my opinion.

Mesa verde involves a somewhat scary drive up the side of a mesa with stone walled cliff dwellings hanging below the rim in a horizontal crevace of a small canyon wall atop the mesa itself. It's a more awsome experience - where you experience actual awe.

Chaco is in a broad basin with canyon walls at a distance (relative to many of the canyons I've been in). It's a different culture - these people built their buildings of the same stone, but they were free-standing and had sunken kivas (as dys' pix show). A more sublime experience, with amazing beauty.

Why not see both, Eva? If you do go to mesa verde, stop in cotez, co, and eat at the brew-pub there - it's fantastic.

as long as you are in Cortez take a 30 min drive thru Monument of the Ancients, but really, for a first time wow factor go to Mesa Verde.

I can't remember, does mesa verde display petroglyphs? I have to say that I wasn't wowed at M.V. But, maybe that's because I was still rattled from the drive up.

I don't recall hearing of any, and certainly never saw any, but the little museum is world class. Oh, and try the Navajo taco if you're at mesa verde.

I've been to Mesa Verde a couple of times, but the 11 year old son hasn't seen it yet. I do think he'd be awed. Half the fun (maybe more) of traveling now is watching his reactions to places I know. I can hardly wait to watch his face when we drive from Silverton to Ouray through Red Mountain Pass. It's like being on another planet up there. Oh, and the Great Sand Dunes! I'm laughing already!

Lovely reading all this. There's something about the names: New Mexico, Albuquerque, Sante Fe, that (from a long, long, way away) induces feeling of intoxication & magic .... Perhaps I wonder of the spirit of Georgia (O'Keefe) still lingers & hovers around these places? Anyway, I would just LOVE to to be there one day ... <sigh>

D.H. Lawrence also had a small house in rural New Mexico.