#New Mexico and Mesa Verde National Park

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Guest Viewings of Chaco Culture National Historical Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the east while taking in view across the Chaco Culture National Historical Park landscape present to my front. In composing this image, I took advantage of some high ground. I was located on an angled my Nikon SLR camera, so that I could create more of a sweeping view, leading off into the horizon. I wanted to keep a balance between the blue skies and clouds above with the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. I felt there was a color contrast that seemed to complement the entirety of the image.

[rabbitcruiser]

National Pink Day

Bullying is a growing problem in the world today and, every year, people hear of more and more incidents coming up regarding bullying in schools everywhere. And, although it is certainly a problem within schools, bullying doesn’t stop there. It extends to the world outside of school and even into the virtual world of the internet, where young people have created a bit of a world of their own.

Bullying is unpredictable and it doesn’t tend to follow any kind of rhyme or reason. It is merely the exertion of power over those who are weaker or who stand out as unusual. National Pink Day is a day dedicated to beating the bullies and breaking the cycle that creates and perpetuates this damaging behavior inside and outside of schools.

History of National Pink Day

National Pink Day (also sometimes called Pink Shirt Day) was established in 2007 in Nova Scotia, Canada. It happened after a pair of students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, saw one of their fellow students at Central Kings Rural High School being bullied for no other reason than that student was wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. Because of the association of pink with feminine things, this 9th grade boy was harassed for choosing to wear the color. But his two classmates weren’t going to let the bullies win.

In a stroke of brilliance, these two got together and decided to show support for the student and take a stand against bullying by getting everyone at their school to wear a pink shirt the next day. In fact, the two boys were so committed that they went to a discount store and bought a bunch of pink shirts to pass out for anyone who didn’t already have one. Pink Shirt Day was created to stomp out all bullying and spread understanding, and it’s a concept spreading throughout the world.

What started in a small corner of Canada has become something of a world event. The day has also been associated with Anti-Bullying day, another day when the idea is to stand up for others and wear pink. While the United Nations has made a declaration that this should happen on May 4, people in many countries still celebrate in February. But, that just means that there can be two different opportunities to make a difference and stand against bullying!

National Pink Day Timeline

Early 20th Century Pink is used for baby boys more than girls

While in the future, boys might get teased for wearing pink, during the 1900s-1930s, it is considered completely appropriate for a baby boy to wear pink and for a girl to wear blue. It isn’t until later in the century that this will flip.

2007 First National Pink Day (Pink Shirt Day) begins

Two students take a stand against bullying against a student in 9th grade in Nova Scotia, Canada who was teased for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. They respond by buying dozens of pink shirts and handing them out for everyone to wear the next day.

2009 National Pink Day is celebrated in New Zealand

As word gets out, National Pink Day begins gaining traction and makes its way to the southern hemisphere. Other countries all over the world quickly follow suit.

2012 United Nations declares official Anti-Bullying Day

Although the date isn’t the same as the original Pink Day, the heart of the matter certainly aligns. Instead of February, the UN declares May 4th as an International Anti-Bullying Day.

2020 National Pink Day passes the $2.5 million mark in donations

Keeping in line with their origins of anti-bullying efforts, National Pink Day started raising money in 2008. It continues to support the efforts that have helped more than 59,000 youth and children, and will keep on going!

How to Celebrate National Pink Day

Getting on board and connected on this day is super easy and it all starts with wearing pink! Here are some other ideas for ways to celebrate this important day:

Wear Something Pink

Start the day by picking out a favorite pink garment and putting it on, especially for those who are male-bodied persons. Whether it’s just a pink t-shirt, a pink polo shirt, or an entire zoot suit made completely in pink–wear it! Get out there and take a stand against bigotry wherever it is found by making sure the offenders know that their calls will not go unanswered.

Teach Kids About Bullying

The more educated and informed kids (and parents!) are about bullying, the better equipped they will be to respond and to stand up, whether for themselves or someone else who is being picked on. Several organizations have been created that provide resources to help enlighten and educate families about bullying. Some of these organization include:

STOMP Out Bullying. Standing up against hate, racism and discrimination, this influential organziation has a help line for kids and teens, resources for parents and kids, options for donating, and ways to buy wearable merchandise to support the cause. stompoutbullying.org

National Association of People Against Bullying (NAPAB). This group provides personal advocacy and support for those who have experienced problems with bullying. They also offer education for students, parents and educators, as well as an anti-bullying club that meets across the nation (called Cool 2B Kind). www.napab.org

Kind Campaign. Bringing awareness and healing for those affected by girl-against-girl bullying, as well as working to stop bullying. It’s a global movement that has made a documentary as well as offering educational curriculums and in-school assemblies. Girls can also buy merch online and start their own Kind Club. kindcampaign.com

Stop Bullying. This is a combined effort between US government organizations including the education department, justice department and health and human services department. They offer resources and information as well as tools and guides for identification and prevention. They also offer an online bullying prevention training course. stopbullying.gov

Help Out in a Bullying Situation

This isn’t just for National Pink Day, but is a life lesson for every day. Those who happen to see or witness someone getting bullied or harassed should be sure to walk up to them and help them out. Don’t let them believe that they are alone in the world. National Pink Day is a day to stand up against the injustice of harassment and bullying, especially against minorities and those of the LGBTQ community.

Those who have ever been bullied in the past know how important it can be to have someone stand up and try to offer support. On National Pink Day, it’s possible to stand up for everyone with a simple wardrobe choice.

Spread the Word About National Pink Day

Since National Pink Day is still a fairly recent occurrence, and it affects kids who might not know about it yet, this is a great day to tell everyone about these anti-bullying efforts. Tell friends about National Pink Day in advance, and then make plans for what to wear and how to honor the day. Take a selfie or a photo of friends wearing pink and share it on various social media platforms to get the word out to everyone.

Throw a National Pink Day Party

School teachers and parents can show their support by allowing students to have a party in celebration of National Pink Day. This is an ideal day to get everyone involved in working toward eliminating the struggles faced by so many kids today. Have everyone wear a pink shirt in support of the day, decorate the party room in pink balloons and streamers, and even serve pink colored foods.

A great activity would be to watch a documentary or video put out by some of the anti-bullying resources listed above. Or have the kids create some unique artwork by using art supplies that are exclusively pink, then put them on display in a cool anti-bullying art show that everyone can enjoy.

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[housecow]

Do you have any locations that you really want to visit to look for fossils? A fossil bucket list, if you will

😳 all over the PNW (chuckanut formation especially, i think that stuff is neat), but also areas of colorado and wyoming for florissant and green river formation stuff.. love me some plants

i’ve actually been to the mazon creek fm!! i got to collect a few concretions and crack them open, was very fun !! no tully monster though 😔 but i’d like more inverts from there…

i’d like to comb the oregon coast again, too!! i went earlier this year and found a tiny piece of bone that i promptly lost. (also many shells from the astoria formation) and then someone that went a week later found a DESMOSTYLIAN TOOTH ATTACHED TO JAW BONE which is literally a dream find for me 😭😭😭

i’d also like to visit the menefee formation of new mexico! it’s been a focus of some research for a while now and i’ve met some people working on it (mesa verde national park has a lot of fossils from that fm, very neat place and if u ask they have info) and there’s more cool stuff to come !!!

lastly… probably the chinle of AZ/NM or some triassic dockum group stuff in texas. i’d looooove to find some of that iconic rainbow petrified wood!

i don’t know enough about geology elsewhere to really say much 🫣 EXCEPT i wanna visit the gobi desert of mongolia bc the fossils there... exquisite

[emilybeemartin]

Inktober Days 13-15

Day 13: "Rise"

Rangers sometimes talk about their “heart parks”—the intimately special ones that make us go dreamy-eyed and nostalgic. Grand Teton is my heart park. During undergrad, I was going through a rough patch, missing my backcountry work in New Mexico and feeling out of place at Clemson. I told my friend that I “just wanted to go somewhere.” He asked if I wanted to go for a walk. I told him no, I’d like to go to the Grand Tetons. I don’t know why I decided on that particular place in that moment—I’d never been there and had only ever seen photos of the famous mountain group. But my friend said sure, we could go to the Grand Tetons. He proceeded to lead me outside student housing, checked the cardinal directions in the sky, and struck off northwest. I followed him. We walked around campus for hours that night, talking about a hundred different things. It was the first time after returning from New Mexico that I’d felt really heard, really understood, really happy.

A few months later, that friend became my boyfriend, and a few years later, that boyfriend became my husband. There was no question about where we would honeymoon. We went to Grand Teton.

Day 14: "Castle"

I’ve been struggling with what to say about Mesa Verde, because this site was so incredible to visit that I almost can’t put it to words. I experienced it while conducting my master’s research between stops in Navajo National Monument and Chaco Canyon. Visiting these cultural sites, tied together by sociopolitical events and natural disasters over the span of centuries, drove home how vast the network of humanity was in the Ancestral Puebloan era. These places were huge hubs of activity and massive feats of architecture—not castles, but communities humming with life, love, loss, struggle, wealth, and beauty.

Mesa Verde was also the only place I saw a ranger bring an audience to tears with the emotion in his program. I audited over two hundred interpretive programs that summer, but I remember lowering my clipboard during this particular tour of Cliff Palace, in awe of how powerfully the ranger was able to connect visitors with his own familial ties to the Ancestral Puebloans who had lived there so long ago. The goal of interpretation is to facilitate a meaningful connection between the visitor and the resource, but never have I ever seen anyone do it so profoundly as that ranger in Mesa Verde, 2011.

Day 15: "Dagger"

White Sands preserves practically the entire span of human history, from fragments of ancient blades up to the space shuttle and missile launches. But it's the beginning of that timeline that draws me toward this gleaming gypsum dunefield.

I remember where I was when the news dropped—in the Apgar ranger office with a handful of other Glacier rangers. I was working on my hunting and gathering program, where I discussed old facts about projectile points and atlatls, but I stopped when another ranger swore in shock. An email had come through to our NPS accounts with new research out of White Sands. Human footprints preserved in the ancient sediment had been dated--- not to the 13-16 thousand years old we typically associated with the earliest humans in the Americas, but to 23 THOUSAND YEARS OLD. In one short email, our whole office's reckoning of human history almost doubled. Our minds were blown. We celebrated like a bunch of lads after a World Cup win. This world that we walk! Footsteps over footsteps over footsteps! What a privilege.

[parisbytaylorswift]

1. Acadia National Park, Maine

2. American Samoa National Park, American Samoa

3. Arches National Park, Utah

4. Badlands National Park, South Dakota

5. Big Bend National Park, Texas

6. Biscayne National Park, Florida

7. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado

8. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

9. Canyonlands National Park, Utah

10. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

11. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

12. Channel Islands National Park, California

13. Congaree National Park, South Carolina

14. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

15. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio

16. Death Valley National Park, California & Nevada

17. Denali National Park, Alaska

18. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

19. Everglades National Park, Florida

20. Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska

21. Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri

22. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

23. Glacier National Park, Montana

24. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

25. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

26. Great Basin National Park, Nevada

27. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

28. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee & North Carolina

29. Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

30. Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii

31. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

32. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

33. Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana

34. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan

35. Joshua Tree National Park, California

36. Katmai National Park, Alaska

37. Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

38. Kings Canyon National Park, California

39. Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska

40. Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

41. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

42. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

43. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

44. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

45. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia

46. North Cascades National Park, Washington

47. Olympic National Park, Washington

48. Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

49. Pinnacles National Park, California

50. Redwood National Park, California

51. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

52. Saguaro National Park, Arizona

53. Sequoia National Park, California

54. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

55. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

56. Virgin Islands National Park, United States Virgin Islands

57. Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota

58. White Sands National Park, New Mexico

59. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota

60. Wrangell—St. Elias National Park, Alaska

61. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana & Idaho

62. Yosemite National Park, California

63. Zion National Park, Utah

[runrunningrunner]

Hi! Road Trip Recap (Highlights Only)

This was our trip to the Grand Canyon, but to get there we had to cover a lot of miles, and if we were going to drive, we might as well take advantage of the sites along the way ... It was a blast! So much fun, so many beautiful places, wild places, along the way.

Since I last posted we have driven approximately 4,900 miles through Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma*, Texas, New Mexico*, Arizona*, Utah*, Colorado*, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and back through Tennessee again home to North Carolina. (*new-to-me states).

We all got to visit our first National Park... In all we visited Petrified Forest, the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Arches National Parks. They were all spectacular. But the Grand Canyon is something beyond description.

I'm still processing it all ...

We crossed both east and west continental divides, crossing the Appalachians and the Rockies ... and we crossed the Mississippi, the Arkansas River (by foot too!), the Rio Grande, the Colorado River, the Kansas River, the Missouri, the Mississippi (again), the Ohio River, and the Tennessee River. That's a lot of bridges!

It never ceases to amaze me how large this country is, and the diversity of terrain, and climate, as well as culture and people. I'm overwhelmed thinking about the last few days so I'll not try to write more than that about the trip.

I am so thankful that we all got to have such a wonderful time together. My heart is full!

[vancouverislandtotoronto2023]

Day 12, Mon June 8: Durango to Mancos to Cortez to Rico to Telluride and back, 366 km

My hotel serves breakfast, so I get to talk to some of the locals. As a result, I switch Telluride from a sidebar on tomorrow's ride to a full day trip today. Right choice. It turned out to be a spectacular day.

Durango sits at 6,522', pop 19,223 and is surrounded by massive mountains (San Juan range of the Rocky Mtns), unbeatable skiing and an historic small gauge railway, a vestige of its silver mining days.

I head out on Hwy 180 to Mancos (7,020', pop 1,221), the gateway to Mesa Verde National Park, home to 4,700 archeological sites and 600 cliff dwellings.

I pass through to Cortez (6,191', pop 8,855) located at the corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

From.there, I turn north on Hwy 145 to Rico (8,825', pop 347), obviously now a mere shadow from its silver mining heyday. With the elevation climb comes lower temperatures and rain. I find a sheltered awning and scramble beneath to put on my warm clothing and rain gear. As all bikers will attest, there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices. Well, almost, as I pull out of Rico, the hail starts. It's not good on a sports bike. I consider turning around, but it drops off, only to start hailing again 15 minutes later as I climb higher towards Telluride. I white knuckle onwards, too close now to turn back.

It turns out to be the right decision. I explore my way through Telluride, then ride over to Mountain Village to catch the gondola ride over the top of the mountain back to Telluride. As it starts raining, I eat lunch on the gondola, enjoy the scenery, and look at the black clouds rolling in. Rather than linger when I get back, I head straight back, kit up, and get on the bike. Within minutes, the hail starts up again. It lasts about 20 minutes, bouncing off my helmet and smashing my knuckles, but finally, I make it back to the lower elevation of Rico where it turns to just plain rain.

Other than the stunning scenery and the winding roads, the trip back after that is comparatively peaceful. I celebrate by stopping in to explore and have dinner in Durango.

Someone was smiling down on me today. A spectacular ride, awesome scenery, a safe return, and $3.00 beer night in Durango. Life is good.

[4zpakw]

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde NM

The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.[1] They are believed to have developed, at least in part, from the Oshara tradition, which developed from the Picosa culture. The people and their archaeological culture are often referred to as Anasazi, meaning "ancient enemies", as they were called by Navajo. Contemporary Puebloans object to the use of this term, with some viewing it as derogatory.[2][3]

The Ancestral Puebloans lived in a range of structures that included small family pit houses, larger structures to house clans, grand pueblos, and cliff-sited dwellings for defense. They had a complex network linking hundreds of communities and population centers across the Colorado Plateau. They held a distinct knowledge of celestial sciences that found form in their architecture. The kiva, a congregational space that was used mostly for ceremonies, was an integral part of the community structure.

Archaeologists continue to debate when this distinct culture emerged. The current agreement, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around the 12th century BC, during the archaeologically designated Early Basketmaker II Era. Beginning with the earliest explorations and excavations, researchers identified Ancestral Puebloans as the forerunners of contemporary Pueblo peoples.[1][3] Three UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in the United States are credited to the Pueblos: Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Culture National Historical Park and Taos Pueblo.

[hedgewitchgarden]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Federal penalties have increased under a newly signed law intended to protect the cultural patrimony of Native American tribes, immediately making some crimes a felony and doubling the prison time for anyone convicted of multiple offenses.

President Joe Biden signed the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act on Dec. 21, a bill that had been introduced since 2016. Along with stiffer penalties, it prohibits the export of sacred Native American items from the U.S. and creates a certification process to distinguish art from sacred items.

The effort largely was inspired by pueblo tribes in New Mexico and Arizona who repeatedly saw sacred objects up for auction in France. Tribal leaders issued passionate pleas for the return of the items but were met with resistance and the reality that the U.S. had no mechanism to prevent the items from leaving the country.

“The STOP Act is really born out of that problem and hearing it over and over,” said attorney Katie Klass, who represents Acoma Pueblo on the matter and is a citizen of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. “It's really designed to link existing domestic laws that protect tribal cultural heritage with an existing international mechanism.”

The law creates an export certification system that would help clarify whether items were created as art and provides a path for the voluntary return of items that are part of a tribe's cultural heritage. Federal agencies would work with Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians to outline what items should not leave the U.S. and to seek items back.

Information provided by tribes about those items would be shielded from public records laws.

While dealers and collectors often see the items as art to be displayed and preserved, tribes view the objects as living beings held in community, said Brian Vallo, a consultant on repatriation.

“These items remain sacred, they will never lose their significance,” said Vallo, a former governor of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. “They will never lose their power and place as a cultural item. And it is for this reason that we are so concerned."

Tribes have seen some wins over the years:

— In 2019, Finland agreed to return ancestral remains of Native American tribes that once called the cliffs of Mesa Verde National Park in southern Colorado home. The remains and artifacts were unearthed by a Swedish researcher in 1891 and held in the collection of the national Museum of Finland.

— That same year, a ceremonial shield that vanished from Acoma Pueblo in the 1970s was returned to the tribe after a nearly four-year campaign involving U.S. senators, diplomats and prosecutors. The circular, colorful shield featuring the face of a Kachina, or ancestral spirit, had been held at a Paris auction house.

— In 2014, the Navajo Nation sent its vice president to Paris to bid on items believed to be used in wintertime healing ceremonies after diplomacy and a plea to return the items failed. The tribe secured several items, spending $9,000.

—In 2013, the Annenberg Foundation quietly bought nearly two dozen ceremonial items at an auction in Paris and later returned them to the Hopi, the San Carlos Apache and the White Mountain Apache tribes in Arizona. The tribes said the items invoke the spirit of their ancestors and were taken in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The STOP Act ties in with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act that requires museums and universities that receive federal funds to disclose Native American items in their possession, inventory them, and notify and transfer those items to affiliated tribes and Native Hawaiians or descendants.

The Interior Department has proposed a number of changes to strengthen NAGPRA and is taking public comment on them until mid-January.

The STOP Act increases penalties for illegally trafficking Native American human remains from one year to a year and a day, thus making it a felony on the first offense. Trafficking cultural items as outlined in NAGPRA remains a misdemeanor on the first offense. Penalties for subsequent offenses for both increase from five years to 10 years.

New Mexico U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, who introduced the House bill, said time will tell whether the penalties are adequate.

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[thorsenmark]

Mesa Verde National Park, a Place to Come and Explore! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north while taking in views to nearby cliff dwellings of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park. This was while on the 700 Years Tour.

[rabbitcruiser]

National Shoe The World Day

National Shoe The World Day is observed annually on March 15th.

Each day over 500 million children, teens and adults around the world do not have a pair of shoes to wear, and despite the terrain and the climate, they have to walk barefoot everywhere. It is a struggle each day that we cannot begin to imagine.  Having to live a daily life without protection on your feet can lead to a lifetime of problems including pain, injury, cuts, sores, infections, parasites, banning from schools and other places and the list goes on.

It is sad to say that we will call this lucky, but there are a few that are fortunate enough to have one pair of shoes even though they are much too big for them.  This way, their shoes will last for many years, as they grow, and they are only allowed to be worn for very special occasions.  In other cases, they may have one pair of shoes that are too small and tight for them (they will make them work) but to have a pair at all is a luxury.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Visit Soles4Souls to donate shoes. National Shoe The World Day is a day created to bring awareness, to everyone across the nation, of the incredible need to help those people around the world that do not have shoes to wear and then to take action in helping.

HISTORY

National Shoe The World Day was inspired by Donald Zsemonadi and the United Indigenous People in Fontana, California in March of 2014.

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Geometry in Ages Past

Geometry in Ages Past

When I saw that this week’s Lens-Artist’s Photography Challenge was geometry, I was at a bit of a loss at first. After all, I do primarily nature photography and although Mother Nature loves a circle or a sphere, she isn’t much into squares and cubes. Trapezoids, circles and ovals Then I happened to notice a similarity in the rock art of many of the ancestral peoples of the desert southwest.…

[fatchance]

Strange inclusions.

At the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. These sandstones are from ancient marine deposits constituting the Cliff House Sandstone. The formation is found throughout the San Juan Basin, and is the same sandstone exposed at the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, for which the stratum is named. 

[haylanmakesstuff]

Day 5

Finally have enough internet for a real update! Getting out of Texas never felt so sweet for a few reasons; One, it’s closer to temperatures that I can handle (Did I mention that hEDS/HSD comes with heat intolerance?), Two, I’ve already had to do a little camper repair. The high winds between Lake Colorado City State Park and Lubbock were just too much, and only after I pulled up to Prairie Dog Town (Yes, I go to every Prairie Dog town I find near me on the map! You should too), did I notice almost half the fiberglass on one side of the camper had been ripped away. Oh boy!

Seeing that I’ll be in the pacific northwest on part of this trip, this just will not do. After a few hours and some very unhelpful Lowe’s employees, I got what I needed to “fix” it. Good thing I’m crafty! I laid heavy duty RV roofing tape down, then used RTV silicone seal to make it water proof. This should hold the rest of the trip – but I’m kind of expecting the other side to blow away at some point. Fingers crossed!

Just like new. Right? RIGHT???

Now for the stuff that’s really important: PRAIRIE DOGS! 

My first National Park stop was Aztec Ruins National Monument, not as much ruins as abandoned by the various tribes, like the Hopi and Zia, that lived that centuries ago. My favorite part was the great room in the largest ceremonial Kiva.

I earned my first Junior Ranger badge of the trip! I dedicate this badge to my friend and donor Jason-Fo, aka, Vacation Jason. Jason is one of the kindest, most authentic people I have ever known. We met in 2011 when we both served as chaperones on an environmental education trip taking honors students to the Hawaiian Islands on a 35 day course. We went back again, and have remained friends. Jason, thank you for your friendship and your support of my fundraiser! Mahalo nui loa. This badge is for you!

My next stop was two nights at Mesa Verde National Park. What a surprise it was! I didn’t know much about it, but wow, it’s beautiful for so much more than the many, many dwellings it’s known for. The story is very much the same as Aztec Ruins; the various tribes that lived here for so long eventually leftover time to reach ‘greener pastures’, since they sustenance and economy was driven by agriculture.

I did a ranger lead tour of Long House, the second largest dwelling in the park. There are 150 rooms here, and many families lived in an impressively run community. Rooms stacked on top of rooms, we used ladders to ascent upwards just like they did hundreds of years ago. After moving on, different tribes ended up in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

 I was lucky that at the end of my second day there, members of the Ute tribe performed drums, dancing, and storytelling at their ancestral lands of the park. I also ruined some people’s day by telling them they couldn’t gather firewood in the park. The guy said, “It’s not for a campfire, it’s for, like, a burning man.” I will be honest, I short circuited there for a moment, because although I’ve heard a lot of weird things working and visiting the parks, that was a new one. I told him that it didn’t really matter what it’s for, you can’t take wood, plants, flowers, anything from a National Park, everything is protected. Luckily, he didn’t seem very sharp so he didn’t argue, and when I asked them to put the sticks back in the wood, they dropped them, and looked supremely bewildered as they walked away. Score one for ya girl.

I earned my second Junior Ranger Badge of the trip here. I dedicate this one to my dearest Shelby, who I saw crawl out of the birth canal at zero years old (well, not really, but don’t tell Shelby that). Thank you for being the first person (*that I’m NOT married to) to donate to this fundraiser. You are a great person to have in my life because you are driven, strong, honest, and intelligent. Your love for life is something to aspire to. You are far better quality than this terribly unfocused picture! 

I will update as soon as I have service/wifi again. I have no idea how often that will be! Such is life on the road.

Haylan