Leaving for Durango/Cortez

After three days of terrible weather, we finally got two days of OK weather and we took advantage of it with a trip to Acoma, Sky City. It is the ancient spiritual home of the Acoma people. They have lived on the top of a 300 foot mesa for 1000 years and still live there.

It was the most unbelievable experience. The valley ringed with mesas and snow capped mountains and buttes jutting up from the floor of the valley was beyond awesome. It is a view I will remember to the day I die.

Can you imagine living in this wilderness and fighting the Spanish invaders, other tribes, and modern civilization which is now even more of a threat than they have faced before.....all this and they have survived and thrived. Quite an inspiring saga of man's believe in his God and himself.

On Saturday, we were all up early and off to the Expo flea market, a very large
gathering of vendors at the state fair gounds,to look for native bargains. We found so much of stone and turquoise and silver jewelry and all of us couldn't resist the urge to purchase.

I also found Navajo chachino dolls, each named for a hunter and signed and numbered by the native Americans who make them. Some of them had to be mine. They spoke to me.

We had planned to all come back to the R V's and have a large lunch/dinner and then leave for Old Town in the late afternoon. As the time approached we started falling out because we are all so tired.

The fatigue of going out exploring every day for three weeks had caught up with all of us, so we snuggled in and stayed put. We want to see and do and go and experience everything , but we are seniors and also need to recoup our energy from time to time.

But we know that two more months stretch out before us and we have to learn to take time to rest so we can see it all.....what a dream of a trip. It has been an education in our country, our fellow Americans,our highway system, and varied cultures. How else can you experience if you don't see it and feel it.

Off to Durango/Cortez and Mesa Verde, higher mountains,and the Silverton/Durango train. We are going to do it all.......but first to bed and some sleep and we will take an extra handful of vitamins.