Crankshaft
Race Dog
big oil said:
Wow what a beautiful little town. Looking at all the campers and motor homes I'm guessing that it was summer holiday season?
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Wow what a beautiful little town. Looking at all the campers and motor homes I'm guessing that it was summer holiday season?
Crankshaft
Race Dog
big oil said:
Looks like a popular tourist attraction.
big oil
Race Dog
Crankshaft said:
Summer vacation for a lot of folks, Ouray and Telluride are tourist destinations for those that love alpine environments. Lots of off road vehicle trails in the area for Jeeps as well.
Crankshaft
Race Dog
big oil said:
Yes i noticed all the Jeeps and 4WD vehicles.
Welsh
Grumpy Mutt
I only know the Colorado Springs / Manitou Springs area, when I stayed there my Hotel (Golf Estate) looked out at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex (a military hole in a mountain :lol8
, I liked Colorado, a lot.
, I liked Colorado, a lot.
Crankshaft
Race Dog
big oil said:Crankshaft said:
Yeah, there are numerous places where one can rent a SxS or Jeep 4x4.
They used to rent Toyota's but they got stuck too often
"They used to rent Toyota's but they got stuck too often"..... :imaposer: :imaposer: :imaposer:
South Africa is full of Toyota lovers and that comment will get you banned again from the forum :deal:
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Crankshaft
Race Dog
big oil said:
Wow wouldn't mind living in one of those cabins. Looking at those overhead cable transport things (sorry don't know what it's called) for the skiers, this must be a very popular spot in the winter
big oil
Race Dog
Crankshaft said:big oil said:Crankshaft said:
Yeah, there are numerous places where one can rent a SxS or Jeep 4x4.
They used to rent Toyota's but they got stuck too often
"They used to rent Toyota's but they got stuck too often"..... :imaposer: :imaposer: :imaposer:
South Africa is full of Toyota lovers and that comment will get you banned again from the forum :deal:
It's all in good fun. I too like Toyota's, I own a brand new one, but I must admit that the Wrangler Rubicon will go places no Toyota can go.
big oil
Race Dog
Welsh said:I only know the Colorado Springs / Manitou Springs area, when I stayed there my Hotel (Golf Estate) looked out at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex (a military hole in a mountain :lol8
I haven't ever been there, heard it's nice. My favorite part of Colorado is the southwest.
big oil
Race Dog
Once settled in at the hotel, I asked the concierge if she could direct me to a Thai restaurant, I had a hankering for Pad Thai, I hadn’t eaten it since Roswell, New Mexico.
It was so so delicious.
It was so so delicious.
big oil
Race Dog
Then I went back to my hotel room and crashed for the night, I was looking forward to visiting a very special place, Mesa Verde National Park.
It had been 8 or 9 years since my last visit. If anyone reading this ever has a chance to visit the southwest region of my magnificent country, do yourself a solid and visit Mesa Verde.
It had been 8 or 9 years since my last visit. If anyone reading this ever has a chance to visit the southwest region of my magnificent country, do yourself a solid and visit Mesa Verde.
big oil
Race Dog
Entry 27 - 800 Year Old 165 Room Puebloan Palace
Star date - 24 July 2018
Distance: 70 miles / 113 kilometers
I couldn't get out of bed on the 23rd of August. After camping all week in Colorado, and now having slept in a big cozy comfortable warm bed all night, I was too lazy to get out of it. So, I didn't. I slept until noon, got up, smoked a bowl, and then went back to sleep for a few more hours. Then I got hungry, so I went to this Mexican restaurant to have dinner and drinks. The drinks were good, the food terrible. Then went back to the hotel to rest more excited for the next days short ride to Mesa Verde National Park and World Heritage Site.
Star date - 24 July 2018
Distance: 70 miles / 113 kilometers
I couldn't get out of bed on the 23rd of August. After camping all week in Colorado, and now having slept in a big cozy comfortable warm bed all night, I was too lazy to get out of it. So, I didn't. I slept until noon, got up, smoked a bowl, and then went back to sleep for a few more hours. Then I got hungry, so I went to this Mexican restaurant to have dinner and drinks. The drinks were good, the food terrible. Then went back to the hotel to rest more excited for the next days short ride to Mesa Verde National Park and World Heritage Site.
big oil
Race Dog
That night, I couldn't help but notice a natural gas leak somewhere around or inside the hotel. I couldn't sleep because of the worry that the hotel would explode. It was late evening, I was walking around the perimeter trying to identify the location of the leak. It took awhile, but I finally narrowed it down to one of the laundry rooms just inside the hotel along the back wall. The odor was quite prevalent.
I immediately notified the front desk, the lady told me that she had been smelling gas for a weekatch: They called in to report the leak, the repair man showed up and fixed it. Shewww, I can finally rest now. It amazes me that a hotel could have had a leak for a week and it not be fixed already. That's dangerous.
I awoke late morning and just relaxed around the hotel, swimming, sauna, hot tub, excited for an evening visit to Mesa Verde. I don't think I got on the bike until after 5:00 o'clock in the evening as I wanted to go when temps had cooled off some. Yeah, you see, I had gone down considerably in elevation from Telluride to Cortez, so I was back to skin melting temperatures, which I just can't get used to.
I immediately notified the front desk, the lady told me that she had been smelling gas for a week
atch: They called in to report the leak, the repair man showed up and fixed it. Shewww, I can finally rest now. It amazes me that a hotel could have had a leak for a week and it not be fixed already. That's dangerous. I awoke late morning and just relaxed around the hotel, swimming, sauna, hot tub, excited for an evening visit to Mesa Verde. I don't think I got on the bike until after 5:00 o'clock in the evening as I wanted to go when temps had cooled off some. Yeah, you see, I had gone down considerably in elevation from Telluride to Cortez, so I was back to skin melting temperatures, which I just can't get used to.
big oil
Race Dog
The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in the North American Continent. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa top for 600 years, many Ancestral Pueblo people began living in pueblos they built beneath the overhanging cliffs. The structures ranged in size from one-room storage units to villages of more than 150 rooms. While still farming the mesa tops, they continued to reside in the alcoves, repairing, remodeling, and constructing new rooms for nearly a century. By the late 1270s, the population began migrating south into present-day New Mexico and Arizona. By 1300, the Ancestral Puebloan occupation of Mesa Verde ended.
Herewith some vid footage recorded on a gimbal with my Sony FDR-3000X at 1080P 60fps.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/_9CUtUJkpUo[/youtube]
“Even though we physically moved away, the spirits of my (our) ancestors are still here. If you stop for a minute and listen, you can hear the children laughing and the women talking. You can hear the dogs barking and the turkeys gobbling. You can hear and feel the beat of the drums and the singing. You can smell the cooking fires. You can feel their presence, their warmth, their sense of community” - T J Atsye, Laguna Pueblo
Herewith some vid footage recorded on a gimbal with my Sony FDR-3000X at 1080P 60fps.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/_9CUtUJkpUo[/youtube]
“Even though we physically moved away, the spirits of my (our) ancestors are still here. If you stop for a minute and listen, you can hear the children laughing and the women talking. You can hear the dogs barking and the turkeys gobbling. You can hear and feel the beat of the drums and the singing. You can smell the cooking fires. You can feel their presence, their warmth, their sense of community” - T J Atsye, Laguna Pueblo
big oil
Race Dog
Here with several peekchas from different vantage points to try and provide some idea of the scale of this magnificent site, named Cliff Palace.
The Mesa Verde National Park offers guided tours to the site, but one has to hike down and hike back up, much too much manual labor for a man not suited for high temps. If they would only provide a helicopter ride down to the palace, I'd pay for that.
Anyway, here da pics:
The Mesa Verde National Park offers guided tours to the site, but one has to hike down and hike back up, much too much manual labor for a man not suited for high temps. If they would only provide a helicopter ride down to the palace, I'd pay for that.
Anyway, here da pics:
