First stop was at Four Corners Monument. It's where the states or Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado meet. It's on Navajo land.....so you guessed it...$8.00 per person and $8.00 for any additional people....
It's essentially a metal plate in the ground representing the four states and people line up nicely to take pics. We saw people doing the splits, push-ups, and laying themselves all over it in whatever weird and wonderful way they dreamed up..... and the rest just putting their feet in the states...like us...
Then back on the road in record time. Arrived at the campsite, set-up, ate, gave Lu her special pill and did the one hour drive up the mountain to our tour of the Balcony House in Mesa Verde National Park
It was a half hour ranger assisted tour...another word for the one hour tours were all booked because it's a very popular and you are just lucky to get this last short tour of the day... and that we were.
Balcony House, with its well-preserved rooms, kivas, and plazas, stands as a tribute to those who built and occupied the site in the thirteenth century, the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico.
And then up a long series of ladders between the rocks back up to the top!
We did some more stops at other areas along the way and then just enjoyed the views back down to the valley in Cortez Colorado
We are here at a great time of year for enjoying the wildflowers!
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