Greetings from the Front Range in CO
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If I don't have a cob in the vest while chasing trout of quail, I have an inexpensive "field cigar".
I really like the San Juan Rodworks sticker on your pipe with the Native symbol.
Colorado is a bit of an enchanted land, like with the Mesa Verde palace. But I've never been there. Can I please ask if there is a lot of Native heritage in your area?
Thanks. The American West is rich with history of indigenous peoples that goes back thousands of years. There is much to see and learn here. Mesa Verde is an awesome inspiring place. I highly recommend visitors to Colorado make the trip to experience it. There are petroglyphs all over Colorado. Pentitente Canyon is another wonderful example. If you get to Colorado don't pass up the chance to visit some of these places.
Yes, it's something that I daydream about alot, since I'm from the central US east coast where the major civilizational architectural history typically starts from the early modern period with the Spanish and English.
Maybe Colorado is in some ways still alittle rustic? I was looking at transportation information, and to get to the southern Colorado sites from any of the major cities, it looks like I would need to rent a car. So for instance near Pagosa Springs there are hot springs in the river, and there is a small mountain called Chimney Rock with Kiva plazas and stone Pueblo ruins on top. It looks cool and reminds me of the Andes. The Chimney Rock ruins were actually coordinated using firewood signals to some other sites in the region like Chaco Canyon.
I had a friend who gave a little lecture here on her trip to the Andes because of their culture, medicinal and ritual history, and she asked toyingly whether she would like to move to the Andes. When I read about the culture and nature of the 4 Corners Region, it made me wonder how comparable she would find it.
I am certainly not an expert on our native culture but I do find it fascinating. Mesa Verde is a journey but worth it.
Similar to Chaco is Bandelier near Santa Fe. Also a great view into our past. It is easier to get to but would still require a car. The West is quite vast compared to the East Coast. I went to college in Boston. The distance between places and people here is much greater.
Pagosa Springs is a great place to visit for a number of reasons.
My cousins went to Mesa Verde within the last few years, and it looks epic, like from a Indiana Jones or X files movie.
With Bandelier, I think I could probably find a tour group from Santa.
With Pagosa Springs, I would probably want to go swim in the springs and visit the ruins on Chimney Rock, and maybe more than a normal tour would due. There's a tour group in Farmington , NM that I think visits Chimney Rock, though.
Durango has flights to Denver and Phoenix. There's a bus that runs from Durango to Cortez and then north a long way to Grand Junction. Cortez County has shuttlebus service on demand. That's about it for public transportation in southwest CO. Probably I can hire a taxi, but that feels kind of excessive. Still it's kind of a fun mental puzzle how to get to these places.
Interestingly, there's a bunch of Megalithic ruins around the New England area, one of the most prominent being Salem, NH's Stonehenge USA ruins. It's not really clear if they had any input from visitors from Europe, but at face value what just happened was that the precolonial Algonquins decided to make buildings reminiscient of megalithic structures in western Europe.
