Where Are We Sleeping Tonight: Rodeway Inn, Farmington New Mexico After we checked out from the motel from hell, we popped into the Antique Corral - wow! They had just about everything you could think of and at crazy cheap prices. If only we could a lot of the stuff home cheaply and easily - I can't wait to see other antique stores around he rest of the country :)
Then we headed up 'insane road mountain' to the Mesa Verde National Park, home to the cave dwellings made by the ancestral Publeons, previously called the Anasazi. How they managed to build their impressive 'homes' with nothing more than sticks, mud and rocks is beyond me! I was surprised how well I did on the old wooden ladders attached to the side of the cliff face - Clare however did have some issues...
By far the biggest attraction on the trip was us - everyone loved our accents and had a million questions about Australia. One girl said she knows a guy in Perth and asked if we knew him... sigh... Everyone told us places we should visit and we will do our best to see as much as we can!
At the end of the tour, the tour guide said that the funniest question that she had ever been asked by a school girl was "how did they get the horses up their ladders" to which the tour guide had said "they didn't have horses" - I turned to Care and said "of course they didn't have horses: they couldn't get them up the ladders!"
After a visit to the gift shop, we headed back down 'suicide drive mountain' and off to Farmington - the town of no tent camping! We must have driven past Jiffy Lube (tee hee hee) 4 times trying to find somewhere to camp. We ended up checking into a motel which is a lot better than last nights hell-hole. There is an amusing sign just outside our room...
We had dinner tonight at Dairy Queen - yum yum! We are slowly eating at every fast food chain we can find - I am going to put on a lot of wait on this holiday...
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