Mesa Verde

We originally planned to be only one week in Aztec and maybe see Bonnie and Gayle in Moab, UT over Memorial Day weekend. Well, it is not good to be without reservations in a big tourist area on a big holiday. Luckily we called the RV parks before we left here and found out that everybody in Moab was fully booked. It must have been a zoo up there. Our campground here had room for us for another week, so we decided to stay and check out some more stuff around the area.

We saw signs for Mesa Verde National Park on our way to Durango and decided to check it out at a later date. Now was a good time. The drive from New Mexico in to Colorado was beautiful. I just can't get enough of these huge snow covered mountains. We had 90 degrees in February in Texas and right now we have the electric heater on in the bedroom at night, since temperature drops down into the 40's here right now. Mesa Verde is at about 8000 feet and we could see the temperature dropping as we started climbing. It was in the 50's when we got there and we really did not bring any jackets with us. But, as long as the sun was out, it was pretty warm.

We started climbing down to the dwellings, which were pretty interesting.


As we were climbing back up to the road, we saw some darker clouds, but really did not give it a second thought. After all this walking we decided to have lunch at the restaurant. Since it was a little bit cold, we chose a table inside. It turned out to be a good idea, since it started hailing within 5 minutes. Again, we figured that it was just a passing cloud and finished our lunch to start a leisurely drive back to the rig. Check out what happened next.


The snow was coming down so hard at times that we could not see more then 200 feet. By the time we were back down by the highway, our surroundings were white. The weather here sure has kept us on our toes. By the time we were back at the rig in New Mexico the sun was shining and it was about 75 degrees.