Saturday, August 27, 2016

What part

I believe I am on part 6/ day 7, but I'm not sure. Anyway, on this day, I went to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Hovenweep National Monument. It was another place about ruins. We went to the visitor center of Canyons of the Ancients in the morning, and took a quick hike to the reservoir created for the people of the area. I saw the first old village of the day, and it was supposed to have 30 rooms. It didn't look that big, which is my personal comment that I say after seeing every single village ruin for the last two days. We didn't spend much time, and took a roundabout tour of most of the easy access ruins. I noticed that we did a lot more hiking than the last day at Mesa Verde, but there were a lot more sites.  At Hovenweep National Monument, which was actually in Utah (Both monuments are close to the Colorado Utah Border), you could visit 8 or 9 in a two hour hiking trip. They didn't have very many roads, apparently, Hovenweep is really small. So, at about 3, we were leaving, to go north, and into the Grand Junction area. We visited Telluride, CO on the way.  The town is a ski resort. The main attraction would be the gondola ride up the mountain, and to a different city, and the "fun facts" say that this is the only form of free transportation of the many gondola lines in the world.  So, of course, when we came here we rode it. After our adventure, we took photos of the sunset. When we came back down, we ate dinner at a local Thai restaurant. Later, we headed towards Montrose, CO where we would spend the night.

The main thing I remember about this day was the Gondola Ride, and the amount of pictures we took on this day rivaled how many we took on day 3. In other words, we took a lot of photos!

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