Ruins

We have had a great few days visiting archaeological sites in Utah and Colorado. Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, Hovenweep, and Mesa Verde National Parks and Monuments. The ruins were very accessible and the early spring weather made for very few visitors. So Doug and I were able to walk around these very old Puebloan villages carved out of the cliffs and rocky overhangs early in the mornings, feeling the sun on our faces, hearing the first bird calls.

Today it is Kansas and we are spending a few minutes in a county library waiting for threatening thunderstorms to pass. I feel more at home in this flattened landscape where the smells (of cattle) and signs of spring are in the air.

Speaking of ruins, our air mattress (which makes tent or car sleeping possible) has just sprung a leak - somewhere. Today's job is to find the hole and patch it up before sunset.