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Day 21: Denver, Colorado, Part 1
We slept in today (finally) and went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science around 2. It was a pretty brief day, sight-seeing wise. And it was really humid. Plus the park was infested with Canadian geese, and their poop was everywhere.
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Day 20: Mesa Verde and Ouray, Colorado
Hello, Mesa Verde! We visited Spruce Tree House, one of the Puebloan ruins built under a cliff overhang in Mesa Verde National Park. Evidently it takes a few days to properly tour the park, but we only had a few hours, so we set out for Denver. We went down a ladder into one of…
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Day 19: Sedona, Arizona
It’s always nice when you watch a car commercial, and realize the next day that you are in the national park they filmed it in. Today we were in Sedona, Arizona, home of Red Rock State Park. “I heard Miranda killed autumn jackets and pulled up the Sedona shoot. What’s that costing me?” “About $300,000.”…
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Day 18: Grand Canyon, Part 2
Apparently, it only rains three weeks out of the year at the Grand Canyon. Lucky for us, we’ve been caught in thunderstorms ever since we got here. There wereso many people. I never knew just how gigantic ravens are until I got to see them up close. We spent the day at the South Rim…
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Day 17: Grand Canyon, Part 1
Hello, Grand Canyon! We toured the North Rim today, hiking to Bright Angel Point (which offered gorgeous views), before being rained out by a torrential downpour that swept in. We stopped by a watchtower that looked just like the Lovegood’s house in Harry Potter. Interestingly enough, though the North Rim and the South Rim of…
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