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Mesa Verde cliff houses

The history of the Anasazi people that built cliff houses is fascinating. They shifted from nomadic gatherers to agriculture relatively recently.

If you build your house on a cliff, I guess you’re not allowed to come home drunk.

A closer look.

My visit to Mesa Verde National Park was cut short by a lightning, thunder and hail storm. The lightning wasn’t anything like the weak flashes we get in California - it was huge spider webs of electricity that seemed to stay in the sky forever. I knew that every time I came to the edge of a cloud, I was going to get pelted with hail. I would scrunch up my shoulders to protect my neck and just yell “ow Ouch OWWW!” when it hit my hands. I should have sprung for rain gloves with knuckle armor. I got some crazy looks from people when I passed, so I would scream “yaaaaaaaaahhhoooooo!” just to confirm their belief that I was totally off my rocker.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 1st, 2004 at 8:11 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Mesa Verde cliff houses”

  1. Sonia Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Amazing place, amazing photos! Well done!

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