Mesa Verde

WOW finally a vacation. I have wanted to go to Mesa Verde for so long. We left on Mothers Day and got to Cortez, Colorado that evening. We went into the park in the morning and our first tour was of Cliff Palace. Our guide was excellent and was very knowledable. We did a couple of "on-your-own" type of tours and all in all had a fantastic day. Towards the end, all of the things started to look a like but there was a lot to see. We were going to go on the Balcony House tour but decided to take our time the next day and hit all the stops we could from Durango up to Grand Junction. We hit a really bad snow storm, the road was pretty narrow with sharp turns and very deep drop offs. The museum in Silverton wasn't open so we just drove through that town and headed up north. We walked around a bit in Montrose and hit the museum there. We got to Grand Junction and couldn't find the place we wanted to eat at. I always get lost there. We found out that there was two high school graduations and one college graduation going on and we could not find a room anywhere so we came home early. We got home about 10pm last night but still had a wonderful time. I think I would like to go to Montrose the next time and spend a couple of days there.