Good morning America
A return route is just the same, only backwards, right?
Noooo. Admittedly there are some similarities on the way back to Durango (long straight roads, strange rock formations, yada yada yada). But here’s the thing. If you’re ever given the chance to visit one more national park in the USA, take it. Chances are you’ll see something new and ridiculously wonderful.
And so it was that Ma and Pa took a right turn off the road and into Mesa Verde national park. Mesa Verde, Green Table. The name given to a huge flat-topped rock formation that for thousands of years until 750AD was home to puebloan peoples who built their homes under the rocky overhangs. You think Ma and Pa are making this up?
How did they do it? No idea. Why did they leave? No idea, either. But it seems their descendants moved to pueblos in New Mexico and lived in exactly the same way for centuries so much sense has been made of the archaeological finds at Mesa Verde. See? Always take that detour.
And so back to Durango and Ma and Pa have booked into the historic Strater Hotel. Built in the 1880s and restored to its one-time glory. Now discerning blog readers will know only too well that there are fine lines between chic, cultural, kitsch and corny. So how do you describe the hotel’s Diamond Belle bar, with 1880s decor, waitresses dressed in ole-time corsets, and a band of 60 year-olds playing blue grass all evening? Weirdly great, that’s how. And here are the Blue Moon Ramblers playing one of Ma’s all time favourites. You couldn’t make it up!
Noooo. Admittedly there are some similarities on the way back to Durango (long straight roads, strange rock formations, yada yada yada). But here’s the thing. If you’re ever given the chance to visit one more national park in the USA, take it. Chances are you’ll see something new and ridiculously wonderful.
And so it was that Ma and Pa took a right turn off the road and into Mesa Verde national park. Mesa Verde, Green Table. The name given to a huge flat-topped rock formation that for thousands of years until 750AD was home to puebloan peoples who built their homes under the rocky overhangs. You think Ma and Pa are making this up?
How did they do it? No idea. Why did they leave? No idea, either. But it seems their descendants moved to pueblos in New Mexico and lived in exactly the same way for centuries so much sense has been made of the archaeological finds at Mesa Verde. See? Always take that detour.
And so back to Durango and Ma and Pa have booked into the historic Strater Hotel. Built in the 1880s and restored to its one-time glory. Now discerning blog readers will know only too well that there are fine lines between chic, cultural, kitsch and corny. So how do you describe the hotel’s Diamond Belle bar, with 1880s decor, waitresses dressed in ole-time corsets, and a band of 60 year-olds playing blue grass all evening? Weirdly great, that’s how. And here are the Blue Moon Ramblers playing one of Ma’s all time favourites. You couldn’t make it up!
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