Rain, rain and more rain. It rained all of last night. When we got up this morning the rain had finally stopped and it was 46* and foggy. After a few hours the temperature hit 48* and once it started sprinkling again, back down to 46*. The mountains back toward Silverton we can see are now capped with snow!
Earlier in the week we knew this might happen. Which is why we did most of the Mesa Verde activities that we could early in our stay. So we kept our base camp here at Mesa and took a road trip to the Four Corners Monument. It was an easy but bumpy ride there. Forty-five minutes, thirty-six miles and sixty-two degrees AND sunny! There is absolutely nothing else there. It is run by the Navajo Nation and was recently re-done in 2010. The monument is very nice. There are vendors set up surrounding the monument selling their jewelry and trinkets. It was a fun and interesting short adventure for the day.
On our return we finally made it into the MVNP Visitors Center. I know we really should have stopped in here days ago. This is a really neat facility. Scientists and archeologists (you can watch them at work) are working on logging and studying many of the artifacts found here in the park.
Tomorrow we will be moving our entire base camp farther southwest and into another state. We hope to land at yet another great National Park.
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