Thursday, August 4

Thursday morning I woke up at Mesa Verde ready for the first tour of the morning of the Cliff Palace. This park had the most self-contained campground and facililities of any park I've been too, with a complete grocery store, restaurants, showers, and gas station. Probably because it's almost an hour drive to the nearest city from the park. I slept very well in the park. Don't know if it was the climate, or the nice surroundings of cedar and mesquite.