Today we went to Mesa Verde National Park, some of the places we wanted to see were closed this month for roadwork/trail renovation, etc – typical of our luck. We did however do a Ranger assisted tour of Cliff Palace which was really quite fascinating! We learned a lot about the Ancestral Pueblo people and their world. The boys found it engaging and fun (the ladders, lol) which was a plus, as Tovi has been complaining about all our hiking of late, but not today – woohoo!
“Even though we physically moved away, the spirits of my ancestors are still here. If you stop for a minute and listen, you can hear the children laughing and the women talking. You can hear the dogs barking and the turkeys gobbling. You can hear and feel the beat of the drums and the singing. You can smell the cooking fires. You can feel their presence, their warmth, their sense of community” – TJ Atsye, Laguna Pueblo
