Okay One More

Although a lot of the meanings of the drawings are not known to us, the spiral means abandoned. This was at one of the ruins.

Newspaper Rock

This is a famous cliff wall where the Indians left probaly messages to each other. I was being artsy and did sepia on this shot.

The road in the Needles National Park

We had to get a back country permit to go out on this road. Only 8 are given on any day. Part of the road was deep sand and part was a river. It was very cool.

The Campers

Aren't we cute?

Our Camp

We sleep in the back of the Cruiser. This is our favorite spot, because there are some fabulous ruins in the cliff walls and on the top. So far I have been too chicken to go to the ruins in the cliffs. You have to drop down on a rope.

Ruins

These were my favorite ones of the trip. Most of the ruins that we hike to are smaller not like huge ones of Mesa Verde.

Pictures from Utah

Here are some of pottery shards that people had picked up and left for others to see. I looked in the trash middens which are usually down below the ruin. When I was a kid I wanted to be an archeologist. Haven't grown out of it.

Utah

I'll add the pictures when I get the cd from Walmart. Robs computer doesn't have the right port for my camera chip. Utah was great. The first day we drove there and camped near some old tower ruins. The next day we hiked in south Mule canyon and found some really cool ruins. There were pottery shards everywhere in their trash heap. We found 3 more ruins. One had very little left of it. There were 2 graineries high up in the cliffs, but I was a little bit leery about climbing up that high on the slick rock. We slept under the stars again to wake up with rain! We four wheeled most of the day. The dirt gets almost like grease so some of the roads got scarey cause if you went off you would end up in a dry creek bed stuck. We decided to go to a motel to clean up. I didn't think too much of the place. The next day we went to the Needles National Park and got a back country pass. The only give out 8 a day. The only 2 campsites had already been taken. The 4 wheeling was awesome. One road was washed out so we took off hiking with the sun coming out finally. We saw fresh bear tracks and scat on the trail which made me nervous especially since the gun was in the cruiser. We didn't have time to get the the ruins which are some of the best. There is always next time.We stayed in a cute motel with pink bathroom fixtures, but it was clean. The next day we went home sadly.

September News

Lynn turned 61 in September, and he hasn't slowed down a bit. Since our good insurance was going to go away at the end of the month, he talked his doctor into a heart cath to check it out. The test showed his heart to be better than 4 years ago when he had stents. It's been 20 years since his by pass so things are good. Kimo had a bad month. He was bitten by another dog and I panicked cause of all the blood and the closeness to his bad eye. He's good too, but 2 weeks ago, a skunk squeezed through the gate and the fence. Kimo chased it into a window well and in the process got sprayed more than once. I washed him with everything even some stuff from the vet. It's almost gone (the smell). On top of that I had to pay a pest guy 70 bucks to come and get it out, but I would have paid ten times that. The house smelled bad too. I am going to post some pictures from our trip, but I 've got to figure out how to on this computer.