Magical Mystery Tour - Day 8
Well, today we had a couple of stops, from the completely tourist-y to the somewhat educational.
We started off by stopping by the Four Corners Monument (also a Navajo-run park) There’s all the flags around the disk in the ground (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Navajo Nation, and Ute Nation) and a good assortment of souvenir stands with everything from silver jewelry, to pottery, to arrows, and quite a bit of food.
The strangest item available at the Four Corners park? A Canadian flag.
After leaving the four corners area, we headed back into Colorado and headed toward Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde was one of the homes of the Pueblo Indians before the moved on (around the year 1300) and ended up in the present-day Rio Grande Valley. Cliff Palace is one of the largest single cliff dwellings in the world (depends on how you count as to which is largest) We also got to tour the Spruce Tree House, which is also a very large cliff dwelling in the same park. Learned a whole lot about the site and the Indians, that I will not bore you with here.
