Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

This was a big item on my bucket list!!  I loved seeing the Cliff Palace in person.  Open only by reservation.  It's a hot Natl Park ticket!!  (Like Swift tickets, right?)

The cliff dwelling is only accessible by very, very steep stairs cut into the rock and four steep wooden ladders.  At the top of the canyon at 8,000 feet, reaching the Cliff Palace is a personal triumph for breathing and climbing simultaneously.  (Ha ha)

Another cliff dwelling we could view only from a distance. 

I loved, loved, it.  These dwellings have been in all my art history books.  I have been wanting to see them for 30 years.  Yay!!

This is the last stop on our roadtrip.  We start the two-day drive back to Dallas tomorrow.