Colorado

Well hello again. Colorado is a lot different than Utah. You notice it almost immediately after crossing the State line.  Dusty scrub brush turns into rolling farmland with little streams and Trees!  Still a little semi desert, I headed up to Mesa Verde National Park.  A little pricy but they have showers and Wifi!
I Spent 3 nights there, exploring various Pueblo Indian ruins. These are the forebears of the Pueblo and Hopi settlements in New Mexico. They were here farming the land and then one day just up and left.  Nobody knows why, but the guess is drought. 700 years later some Cowboys stumbled upon the ruins as they were herding their cattle up on the Mesa

Some sites are harder to access than others.

Then I spent a couple days near Telluride, hiking and riding a little off road.  It reminds me a lot of Europe.  Very alpine and cool and crisp.

A little dirt for the bike