So much for lunch

It happens that as soon as I uploaded the second picture at our lunch stop (in the Taco Bell parking lot), the computer battery was depleted.  :-(

But, alas, we have a strong signal for the Hot Spot on Bob's phone at our Lake Abiquiu campsite and I'm ready to go again.



This is the sandstone along the canyon walls at a place we walked to a view point




This is the walk down to the view point.  It was a haul, but Linda made it down (and back, you'll be glad to know.)





And this is what we saw - Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado

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Our next day we drove on, through the Four Corners Area, passing from Arizona to Colorado, Southwest to Northeast.  It's an area that has some beautiful scenery.

 

This formation is called Cathedral Rock


 

Bob, standing in four states


 

Linda, standing in four states

   Then we arrived at Mesa Verde and spent all of the following day (I think that was Tuesday) touring the park. The morning was spent on a bus tour and the afternoon was in the Visitors' Center, the Museum, and at the Spruce Tree House.  See pictures below.

Cliff Palace from the top of our trail down. 
Yes, both Linda and Bob did this tour -
100 feet down and 100 feet up

Looking at group ahead of us from our first stop down.

Looking across the front of the cliff houses at Cliff Palace,
the largest cliff dwellings in in North America

Another site we viewed from a view point, the tallest dwelling in the park,
four stories. The parks service is stabilizing this structure, thus the scaffolding around it.

This is a dwelling across from the Museum, the Spruce Tree House.  You can hike down the canyon
and then back up to this one, but it was the end of the day so we just enjoyed it from across the way.