Jul 21, 2009 - Back at Echo Basin Ranch

We had about a three hour drive from Moab to Mancos on a road pretty much to ourselves. We were able to get a spot at Echo Basin Ranch where we have stayed for the last two years but we couldn’t get one of our favorite sites. The ranch is crowded and something seems to have happened to management, it seems organized and under control and the workkampers aren't trying to slaughter each other. We drove into Mancos for lunch at one of our favorite restaurants. JoAnn had been coveting fish and chips for quite some time and was quick to pounce...

Apr 25, 2009 - Cliff Dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park

It was a short drive from Bloomfield, New Mexico to the Colorado border. Before no time, we found ourselves in the mountains once again as we traveled through the quaint little town of Durango and on to our resting stop of the even smaller town of Mancos at 7,000 feet. We thought it appropriate to once again change our cover photo to the mountain scene. We got easily settled in the Mesa Verde RV Park, just below the Mesa Verde National Park. Although the RV park has it’s office and restrooms closed for remodeling, we didn’t complain as we...

Oct 8, 2008 - Move to Mancos Colorado

Mom was scheduled to be transferred from the Rehab Hospital in San Juan New Mexico to the Valley Inn Nursing Home in Mancos Colorado on October 8th. So we moved to the Mesa Verde RV Resort near Mancos. After we arrived in Mancos we learned that her transfer had been delayed until October 9th when a review of her medical records revealed that she did not have a current chest X-Ray required by law for admission to a nursing home. She was transferred on the 9th although we weren’t certain it would occur because of a schedule conflict with the...

Sep 8, 2008 - Mancos, CO - From Utah to Colorado

Today was a driving day…and a really short one, only 120 miles. We left Moab around 10 o’clock, stopped for a rest break and a lunch stop. We were mostly stalling so we wouldn’t arrive at this RV Park too early and we didn’t. We are at Mesa Verde RV Resort for the next four nights; it’s located less than a mile from the entrance to the National Park and it’s FULL. The lady had to juggle some other reservations to get us four nights in the same site. This is the first time we’ve run into this since we were in Sequim, WA and we got bumped for...

Aug 7, 2008 - Mancos, Colorado

From Creede we went to Mancos, Colorado. We stayed at an RV park which was also part dude ranch and summer camp. While we were there, a local business also had their employee picnic and carnival on the grounds. The man who owned the park had the distributorship for astroturf, so the entire place was carpeted with it. The park was near the national forest, so we did some 4-wheel driving, too. We were only a few miles from Mesa Verde National Park, which is a preserved archeological area on a large mesa, or plateau. There are many examples of...

Jul 20, 2008 - Camping at a Shell station

Yeah, so Archview rv park and campground sits happily behind a Shell station. Pretty smart if you ask me, where else could you get a campsite and a klondik bar? We were in Mesa Verde last night for the little storm they had. I think sleeping in a tent in the rain is actually pretty relaxing. It didn't hurt that we were both pretty exhausted from the drive though. I must say I am a little disappointed at the lack of bears, except for in the ranger station of coarse. But with all the preparation we had to do and hiding of the food and what...

Jun 4, 2008 - Mancos Colorado

We’re home! We arrived in Mancos around noon today and checked in at Echo Basin. The sites we wanted were already taken so we went the wrong way into a pull through so that we can look out at the pasture and our horses. It is cloudy and cool and there is a 60% chance of rain tomorrow. We both feel so good to be here and really don’t know why. This place just feels good. Coming out of the desert and into the mountains we are blown away with all the deep green grass. There is green everywhere; it is so refreshing. White capped and yellow...

Apr 20, 2008 - Mesa Verde, Colorado

Arrived here about 2 PM. Will see Pueblo Indian ruins tomorrow. April 21 Mesa Verde National Park, Near Cortez Colorado Today is the day Diane and I chose to visit Mesa Verde National Park, sadly the last place we have on our list of things we want to see before heading home. We will be passing Arches and Canyon Land Parks on our way through Utah, but those will have to be another adventure at another time. Our RV park was located within a half mile of the park entrance, so once we got ourselves up and the water hose thawed, (it was 22...

Jul 4, 2007 - Echo Basin

We had anticipated a pretty dreary journey from Tuba NM to Cortez CO but were pleasantly surprised. It was a very beautiful trip. Most of the day was through the Navajo Nation and the last time we had driven through it, we were coming south from the Utah side and it was pretty rough looking. But this trip going north was pretty scenery the whole way and we did not see the abject poverty and shanties that we had seen on other Indian Reservations or other parts of this one. In fact in some areas there were some nice modern subdivisions. We...

Jun 5, 2007 - Southwestern Colorado

NATION PARKS OF THE GRAND CIRCLE- Grand Canyon, Zion, Capitol Reef, Arches, Mesa Verde,and Bryce Canyon We left our RV @11:30 am for Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde is Spanish for green table and offers spectacular looks into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 yrs. (from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300) The park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. We steadily climbed for 15 miles to the Visitor's Center. We went inside the center to get some info on the park. I...