The Green Table

I thought "mesa" meant mountain in Spanish, but I guess I should have known that "Montana" is the Spanish word for mountain. So I learned something after going to Mesa Verde, which I guess looks like a green table. We didn't have a lot of time, and after dealing with a slight fiasco at the campground in Cortez, Becky and I took the boys into Mesa Verde to see a few of the sites. It was a long, long drive to the back of the park, but it was incredibly beautiful. The sweeping valleys and towering sand colored cliffs surrounded us as we curved our way back to the locations the park is known for. It was too late to take a Ranger tour, but we did get to see some of the famous Puebloan cliff dwellings, even though it was raining by the time we got there. We've been to several parks like this, but this one has the most impressive ancient structures.

While we did get rained on, it was nice to actually wear a jacket in July for a change!