Sept. 22, 2010 A&A Mesa Verde RV Park Campground Mancos, Colorado

We drove about 6 hours today to get here. It was a relatively uneventful trip, just very rough roads and threatening clouds. We could tell it had rained in several places, but all we ever saw was just a short shower. We had one-way traffic in one place where water had previously been over the road and workers were shoveling mud off the road. We skirted around the edge of Monument Valley.

We didn’t drive through it, but we had been there a few years ago (it was raining then too). We were planning to stop at Four Corners, where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. In fact we turned into the area and paid our $6 entrance fee, but when we got back into it, the parking lot was a muddy mess and we didn’t want to wade through it. We circled around the parking lot and left. Oh well, I guess that was a $6 donation to the Navajos.

It has been pretty warm every where so far, usually in the mid to upper 80’s. Today we watched the temperature drop most of the way here. It was about 63 when we got here about 4:00 this afternoon. It has dropped now, probably down in the 50’s now. I’m sure we’ll have to have heat on tonight.