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+ <p>I spend more time than is strictly necessary staring at maps. I have since I was a kid. I used to drag my dad to a map store just to buy 7.5 topo sheets of the High Sierras and desert around southern California. </p>
+<p>I like maps, especially blank spots on maps and in the United States there are very few places with as many blank spots as the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. One of the relative blank spots I kept staring at was something called Canyon of the Ancients. After our disappoint experience with Mesa Verde we were anxious to get back to some ruins that were less crowded and I felt like Canyon of the Ancients was a good place to start. Looking up reviews on the web got me tons of negative reviews from people complaining about the lack of signage, getting lost and never seeing anything but private farmland. Perfect.</p>
+<p>We started at a museum up in Dolores CO, which exists mostly because in the mid 1980s this area decided it need a reservoir. The problem with filling in a canyon around here is that you&#8217;re filling in 2000 years of archaeological treasures. They found so much pottery here that (according to some locals we talked to) the museum put most of it in burlap sacks and smashed them to fit in drawers. Keep that in mind next time you think archaeologists are the best preservers of the past. Personally I&#8217;d rather have those pots on someone&#8217;s mantel than smashed in a drawer. The rest of us will never see it either way, might as well let at least one person enjoy it.</p>
+<p>I didn&#8217;t actually know this tidbit when we were at the museum so I was able to enjoy it. It had a good bit of interactive stuff. The kids got to grind some corn, which made me incredibly happy we don&#8217;t have to do that these days. Though of course, at the rate we&#8217;re going I would not at all be surprised if we&#8217;re back to grinding corn before my grandchildren grow old.</p>
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+<p>The main purpose of stopping at the museum though was to get some better maps of the area, which we did. We decided to go to the best preserved ruin first, which was nice enough, but metal reinforcements and the rest of the modern structural work necessary to stabilize an excavated ruin are, to my mind, distracting (but necessary, I get it).</p>
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+<p>After that the kids were tired of driving around so we headed back to Mancos.</p>
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+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1950s Chevrolet Apache Wagon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="1950s Chevrolet Apache wagon. You don&#39;t see these much. We&#39;re on the hunt for something better than a minivan, I&#39;d love for it to be one of these but I don&#39;t really have a way to fab parts in the bus :)">
+ </a>
+<figcaption>1950s Chevrolet Apache wagon. You don&#8217;t see these much. We&#8217;re on the hunt for something better than a minivan, I&#8217;d love for it to be one of these but I don&#8217;t really have a way to fab parts in the bus :)</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>But then Corrinne and I changed our minds and decided we&#8217;d go see one other pueblo, known as Sand Canyon. </p>
+<p>After winding through a bizarre patchwork of private and public lands we finally found a tiny turnout with an even tinier sign. We tucked some water in our packs and hit the short trail. Unlike most ruins we&#8217;d been to, Sand Canyon was reburied after it was excavated back in the 1960s (if you want something to last out here, you don&#8217;t leave it exposed to the elements, you rebury it and leave it like you found it). Instead of walking through buildings and rooms as we did in Chaco, in Sand Canyon you step over vaguely defined walls and crumbs of stones, a bit like my favorite ruin in southeast asia &#8212; Beng Melea, which is about two hours north of the rest of Angkor Wat and still mostly just a bunch of stone in the jungle. There&#8217;s no jungle in Sand Canyon, but the juniper, prickly pear and rice grass &#8212; all of which the kids pointed out, unprompted, as we hiked, so perhaps Mesa Verde was not a total loss &#8212; fill the same roll.</p>
+<p>Sand Canyon sits on the edge of a juniper strewn mesa with a short trail that winds through it and eventually down that canyon. The pueblo itself was one of the largest in the area, bigger than anything in Mesa Verde. Just about 800 years ago roughly 725 people lived on the edge of this mesa in a singular walled structure. There were 420 rooms, 90 kivas and 14 towers. A spring used to run right through the middle of it, though it didn&#8217;t have any water when we were there. There were roofed plazas, kivas connected to towers and some other oddities. Although it doesn&#8217;t fit with the park service narrative and therefore wasn&#8217;t on any of the signs, in 1290 41 women men and children were massacred here and if anyone survived they moved on. No one has lived here since.</p>
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+<figcaption>See the tower that dates from 900AD?</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>We wandered around, trying to piece together the structure of things based on the shape of rocks piled here in there in might have been patterns. It&#8217;s tough to trust your brain when it comes to patterns though, it&#8217;ll see patterns where there are none. Or perhaps patters that aren&#8217;t the ones you&#8217;re looking for. Still, we picked out a few kivas and what a sign said was the outer wall. We found potsherds. And then we put them back in the ground. </p>
+<p>Unlike Chaco this location made sense &#8212; there was a commanding view of the canyon and a spring running right through the middle of what became the city. Anyone passing through the area would want to stay here. And a lot of people did pass through here. Over 6,000 sites have been recorded in the area Canyon of the Ancients covers and the best guess is that there are plenty more out there waiting to be found. </p>
+<p>Even if you don&#8217;t head off into the desert in search of some new ruin &#8212; it&#8217;s worth bearing in mind that not officially recorded is very different than undiscovered &#8212; there&#8217;s plenty to find here. All the kids found their own potsherds, including the biggest piece we&#8217;ve found yet.</p>
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+<p>Eventually the heat and the stillness got to us and we headed back to the car for more water. One the way we detoured up to the high point of the mesa overlooking the canyon. We made a stab at a group picture, but mostly we just sat there awhile, listening to the silence of the desert and ruins.</p>
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+ </a>
+<figcaption>Our trip to the Canyon of the Ancients happened to take place exactly four months after we left Athens. Honestly though, Athens feels a lot farther in the rearview mirror than that to me.</figcaption>
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+Canyon of the Ancients
+======================
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2017/08/canyon-ancients>
+ Tuesday, 01 August 2017
+
+I spend more time than is strictly necessary staring at maps. I have since I was a kid. I used to drag my dad to a map store just to buy 7.5 topo sheets of the High Sierras and desert around southern California.
+
+I like maps, especially blank spots on maps and in the United States there are very few places with as many blank spots as the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. One of the relative blank spots I kept staring at was something called Canyon of the Ancients. After our disappoint experience with Mesa Verde we were anxious to get back to some ruins that were less crowded and I felt like Canyon of the Ancients was a good place to start. Looking up reviews on the web got me tons of negative reviews from people complaining about the lack of signage, getting lost and never seeing anything but private farmland. Perfect.
+
+We started at a museum up in Dolores CO, which exists mostly because in the mid 1980s this area decided it need a reservoir. The problem with filling in a canyon around here is that you're filling in 2000 years of archaeological treasures. They found so much pottery here that (according to some locals we talked to) the museum put most of it in burlap sacks and smashed them to fit in drawers. Keep that in mind next time you think archaeologists are the best preservers of the past. Personally I'd rather have those pots on someone's mantel than smashed in a drawer. The rest of us will never see it either way, might as well let at least one person enjoy it.
+
+I didn't actually know this tidbit when we were at the museum so I was able to enjoy it. It had a good bit of interactive stuff. The kids got to grind some corn, which made me incredibly happy we don't have to do that these days. Though of course, at the rate we're going I would not at all be surprised if we're back to grinding corn before my grandchildren grow old.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-714" class="picwide" />
+
+The main purpose of stopping at the museum though was to get some better maps of the area, which we did. We decided to go to the best preserved ruin first, which was nice enough, but metal reinforcements and the rest of the modern structural work necessary to stabilize an excavated ruin are, to my mind, distracting (but necessary, I get it).
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-715" class="picwide" />
+
+After that the kids were tired of driving around so we headed back to Mancos.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-716" class="picwide caption" />
+
+But then Corrinne and I changed our minds and decided we'd go see one other pueblo, known as Sand Canyon.
+
+After winding through a bizarre patchwork of private and public lands we finally found a tiny turnout with an even tinier sign. We tucked some water in our packs and hit the short trail. Unlike most ruins we'd been to, Sand Canyon was reburied after it was excavated back in the 1960s (if you want something to last out here, you don't leave it exposed to the elements, you rebury it and leave it like you found it). Instead of walking through buildings and rooms as we did in Chaco, in Sand Canyon you step over vaguely defined walls and crumbs of stones, a bit like my favorite ruin in southeast asia -- Beng Melea, which is about two hours north of the rest of Angkor Wat and still mostly just a bunch of stone in the jungle. There's no jungle in Sand Canyon, but the juniper, prickly pear and rice grass -- all of which the kids pointed out, unprompted, as we hiked, so perhaps Mesa Verde was not a total loss -- fill the same roll.
+
+Sand Canyon sits on the edge of a juniper strewn mesa with a short trail that winds through it and eventually down that canyon. The pueblo itself was one of the largest in the area, bigger than anything in Mesa Verde. Just about 800 years ago roughly 725 people lived on the edge of this mesa in a singular walled structure. There were 420 rooms, 90 kivas and 14 towers. A spring used to run right through the middle of it, though it didn't have any water when we were there. There were roofed plazas, kivas connected to towers and some other oddities. Although it doesn't fit with the park service narrative and therefore wasn't on any of the signs, in 1290 41 women men and children were massacred here and if anyone survived they moved on. No one has lived here since.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-717" class="picwide caption" />
+
+We wandered around, trying to piece together the structure of things based on the shape of rocks piled here in there in might have been patterns. It's tough to trust your brain when it comes to patterns though, it'll see patterns where there are none. Or perhaps patters that aren't the ones you're looking for. Still, we picked out a few kivas and what a sign said was the outer wall. We found potsherds. And then we put them back in the ground.
+
+Unlike Chaco this location made sense -- there was a commanding view of the canyon and a spring running right through the middle of what became the city. Anyone passing through the area would want to stay here. And a lot of people did pass through here. Over 6,000 sites have been recorded in the area Canyon of the Ancients covers and the best guess is that there are plenty more out there waiting to be found.
+
+Even if you don't head off into the desert in search of some new ruin -- it's worth bearing in mind that not officially recorded is very different than undiscovered -- there's plenty to find here. All the kids found their own potsherds, including the biggest piece we've found yet.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-719" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-720" class="picwide" />
+
+Eventually the heat and the stillness got to us and we headed back to the car for more water. One the way we detoured up to the high point of the mesa overlooking the canyon. We made a stab at a group picture, but mostly we just sat there awhile, listening to the silence of the desert and ruins.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-718" class="picwide caption" />
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+ <p>From the Dolores River we headed west into Utah in search of the canyon that the women we met down by the river had told us about. It&#8217;s not easy to find. The road is unmarked (at least the north end) and there are a series of roads that all basically look the same. After driving back and forth a few times I finally gave up and stopped at the nearest town and asked a woman at chamber of commerce how to get there. I was given some very vague directions with one particular thing to look for, which eventually proved to be the missing piece of information we needed.</p>
+<p>Once we found it there was no trouble with getting lost, there was only one road running down a long canyon filled with petrogylphs and ruins that were, for the most part open to the world at large. There was also a fully restored kiva that we went down inside. </p>
+<p>In a day&#8217;s worth of driving we saw only one other car. It was just about the best canyon exploring I&#8217;ve ever done by car (hiking, that&#8217;s another story) and the best ruins and petrogylphs we&#8217;ve seen. There were even modern houses with people living in them, rock caves used as barns, and enough other oddities to feel a bit like you were on another planet. There were no signs, no fences and no rules. Thank you very much to the women who pointed us here.</p>
+<p>In the spirit of this place I do not want to ruin your chance for serendipitous discovery so I have stripped all the geodata from the images and I&#8217;m not publishing the name. If you&#8217;re headed to the area and you want to be pointed in the right direction, <a href="/contact/">email me</a>.</p>
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+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ancient house in rock cave photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_124720.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="There are ancient dwellings...">
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+<figcaption>&#8230;and modern ones too.</figcaption>
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+<figcaption>Even some that look a little like our home.</figcaption>
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+<figcaption>Ever since I was a kid exploring the west with my parents I&#8217;ve wanted to climb up some ancient handholds, but for one reason or another I never have. Until now.</figcaption>
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+<p>By far the highlight of the day for me was getting to go down inside a kiva. I can&#8217;t properly convey what it was like to go down there, but what made it really special was that there was no one else around but us.</p>
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+<p>Back at camp the kids wasted no time in finding a nice rock outcropping under which to play ancient puebloans, hunting, grinding corn, building with rocks, even attempting to weave grass sandals.</p>
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+ <p>Those Kiva pictures are frame worthy! Im going to have to get that location from you if im ever out that way- Thats amazing. Without me googling it, do you have any clue how they made petroglyphs? Its almost like they bleached the rock. Surely its not just a carving or scrape technique is it?</p>
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+ <p>@drew- I emailed you some info on the canyon. </p>
+<p>As for petroglyphs, yup they&#8217;re carved, the hard way. Pictographs, which will be in a post soon, are drawn.</p>
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+Canyoneering
+============
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2017/08/canyoneering>
+ Saturday, 12 August 2017
+
+From the Dolores River we headed west into Utah in search of the canyon that the women we met down by the river had told us about. It's not easy to find. The road is unmarked (at least the north end) and there are a series of roads that all basically look the same. After driving back and forth a few times I finally gave up and stopped at the nearest town and asked a woman at chamber of commerce how to get there. I was given some very vague directions with one particular thing to look for, which eventually proved to be the missing piece of information we needed.
+
+Once we found it there was no trouble with getting lost, there was only one road running down a long canyon filled with petrogylphs and ruins that were, for the most part open to the world at large. There was also a fully restored kiva that we went down inside.
+
+In a day's worth of driving we saw only one other car. It was just about the best canyon exploring I've ever done by car (hiking, that's another story) and the best ruins and petrogylphs we've seen. There were even modern houses with people living in them, rock caves used as barns, and enough other oddities to feel a bit like you were on another planet. There were no signs, no fences and no rules. Thank you very much to the women who pointed us here.
+
+In the spirit of this place I do not want to ruin your chance for serendipitous discovery so I have stripped all the geodata from the images and I'm not publishing the name. If you're headed to the area and you want to be pointed in the right direction, [email me][1].
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+By far the highlight of the day for me was getting to go down inside a kiva. I can't properly convey what it was like to go down there, but what made it really special was that there was no one else around but us.
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+Back at camp the kids wasted no time in finding a nice rock outcropping under which to play ancient puebloans, hunting, grinding corn, building with rocks, even attempting to weave grass sandals.
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+ <p>After two weeks in the Mancos area we decided it was time to move on, to see what&#8217;s over the next hill &#8212; where hill means 9,000 ft pass.</p>
+<p>We set out early from the campground and stopped in Mancos to get some gas and grab a last couple of espressos from Fahrenheit coffee roasters. But, when I walked out of the gas station after paying, I noticed a puddle of liquid under the bus. Crap. There are only two liquids in the back of the bus, water and gas. I crawled under the bus and unfortunately, this was not water.</p>
+<p>In fact I could see the gas dripping out of a T-valve that would send gas up to the generator, if we had one. Leaking gas is always bad, but this was leaking gas that was dripping down about four inches from the tailpipe. I have no idea how hot the tail pipe is 20 feet from the engine, but I&#8217;d guess it&#8217;s hot enough to ignite gasoline vapors.</p>
+<p>The gas station had a repair shop attached, though it seemed to mainly do tires. I wandered over and started talking to a couple of the kids that worked there and got their permission to pull the bus over, off to the side so I work under it. They even gave me a couple rags. I got under and decided to start with the rubber hose, which I figured was the most likely candidate to have cracked. Certainly the easiest fix, which is my own personal version of Occam&#8217;s razor &#8212; start with the easiest possible fix.</p>
+<p>I clamped the rubber hose coming out of the tank and cut it lose from the joint, trimmed a couple of inches and stuck it back on with two new hose clamps. The dripping stopped. I went up and started the engine and went back to have a look. Still dripping. Damn. I turned it off and crawled back under to take apart the joint and get some pipe dope in there. I put a good amount of pipe dope on all three pieces, but as I was tightening it I was causing gas to come dripping out. I spun around a connector piece that seemed weak and realized it was cracked, bingo. Bought a new piece from the shop, which had some brass fittings, for $3, doped it all out and tightened everything back up. Started the engine and no leaks. A little over an hour and only $3 &#8212; if only all the bus problems were that easily solved.</p>
+<p>I took the long way out of Mancos, but we were back on the road by noon.</p>
+<figure class="picwide">
+ <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0089_01.jpg " title="view larger image">
+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1960s International Harvester Travelall photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0089_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Part of the reason I took the long way out was the photograph a couple cool old cars. I&#39;m not sure what year this is, but we&#39;d love to have a mid-1960s International Harvester Travelall like this.">
+ </a>
+<figcaption>Part of the reason I took the long way out was the photograph a couple cool old cars. I&#8217;m not sure what year this is, but we&#8217;d love to have a mid-1960s International Harvester Travelall like this.</figcaption>
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+ </a>
+<figcaption>Ray Frank, who designed the Travco, sold the Travco company in the late 1970s or so. He went on to create some really cool Dodge-based van/rvs call Xplorers, this is the second one I&#8217;ve seen.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Needless to say hitting the road at the crack of noon, while pretty good considering, was not good when we had about four hours to go. We&#8217;ve adopted what some fulltimers call the 2, 2, 2 policy (never drive more than two hours, never get there later than 2 o&#8217;clock and never stay less than two days). There was no way we were going to make it by two and in this case it was more than arbitrary, we knew a big storm was supposed to roll in to where we were headed that evening. And let&#8217;s just say that spending my morning under rather than in the bus took some of my enthusiasm for further struggles away. </p>
+<p>By two o&#8217;clock we were well on our way to Naturita, but it was hard to tell where Naturita was because a massive and very nasty looking storm had swallowed the horizon. We stopped at the side of the road to regroup and rethink our options. We talked over a couple different plans and ended up deciding to backtrack a few miles to a sign we&#8217;d both noticed that said national forest access. Signs like that are all over the place around here, sometimes the national forest ends up being a couple miles, sometimes it&#8217;s twenty or thirty. It&#8217;s always a gamble, but gambling beats a certain storm so we headed off down a dirt road that, as they tend to do, got progressively worse until it practically dove off a cliff down to the banks of the Dolores river.</p>
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+ <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river.jpg " title="view larger image">
+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Storm.">
+ </a>
+<figcaption>Storm.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>At the bottom of the canyon was the most decayed, ramshackle national campground I&#8217;ve ever encountered. Perfect. Even the signs were falling apart.</p>
+<figure class="picwide">
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+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide-med.jpg" alt="signs, dolores river photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_143027.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
+ </a>
+<figcaption>image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption>
+</figure>
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+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
+ </a>
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+
+<p>We found a site way off by itself &#8212; not that there was anyone around, in all our time down by the river we only had two other people in the campground &#8212; about 30 feet from the water and headed down to the river for a swim. </p>
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+ <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_152227-1.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)">
+ <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_152227-1_pic66.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_152227-1.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a>
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+ <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_151658_pic66.jpg" alt="swimming, dolores river photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_151658.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a>
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+<p>Hot days, cold water. Just about perfect. There was even a field of sunflowers next to our campsite. </p>
+<div class="picwide">
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+ </a>
+</div>
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+<p>We liked it so much in fact that we stayed four days. We might have stayed longer, but one afternoon a couple of women foraging for herbs stopped by and we got to talking about the area and eventually we ended up talking archeology sites and potsherds. These were the women who told the story about the museum smashing pots to fit them in a drawer. But they told us about a place they said we&#8217;d have to ourselves that was full of pictographs and houses built into a rock, both new and old. Naturally we had to go so we packed up and left the next day.</p>
+<p>I&#8217;ll write about that adventure next time, but I&#8217;ve been thinking ever since about how if it weren&#8217;t for the bus&#8217;s fuel line cracking we&#8217;d have never seen the Dolores river, and never made it to one of the best canyons we&#8217;ve explored in this area. Some people call this coincidence, but those people lack perception. Coincidence only exists when you&#8217;re not paying attention. There are no coincidences, just massively complicated intricate patterns we can&#8217;t begin to comprehend. At best you can feel them moving around you, moving through you, you can reach out and touch them, bounce from node to node for a while. It&#8217;s a bit like lying in a river, everything flowing around, over and through you.</p>
+<p>One of the things about living on the road is that the highs tend to be higher and the lows correspondingly lower, which produces an odd kind of balance and has a lot to teach about the center, but you also learn that the highs and lows are not separate things, they&#8217;re interrelated and connected in all kinds of interesting and malleable ways. There are not hard and fast lines between high and low moments like our brains would have us pretend there are. Each point in the pattern, each node in the network gets information from all the other. Everything needs everything else. Everything feeds back through to everything else. No broken fuel line, no Dolores river. It just wouldn&#8217;t be as fun any other way.</p>
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+ <p>Every summer we used to camp all over TX, NM and CO when i was growing up. We had an old station wagon and a pop-up camper, and it was the best. This brings back so many great memories! Hope y&#8217;all continue to have a wonderful trip, i enjoy reading your blog posts :)</p>
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+Dolores River
+=============
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2017/08/dolores-river>
+ Thursday, 10 August 2017
+
+After two weeks in the Mancos area we decided it was time to move on, to see what's over the next hill -- where hill means 9,000 ft pass.
+
+We set out early from the campground and stopped in Mancos to get some gas and grab a last couple of espressos from Fahrenheit coffee roasters. But, when I walked out of the gas station after paying, I noticed a puddle of liquid under the bus. Crap. There are only two liquids in the back of the bus, water and gas. I crawled under the bus and unfortunately, this was not water.
+
+In fact I could see the gas dripping out of a T-valve that would send gas up to the generator, if we had one. Leaking gas is always bad, but this was leaking gas that was dripping down about four inches from the tailpipe. I have no idea how hot the tail pipe is 20 feet from the engine, but I'd guess it's hot enough to ignite gasoline vapors.
+
+The gas station had a repair shop attached, though it seemed to mainly do tires. I wandered over and started talking to a couple of the kids that worked there and got their permission to pull the bus over, off to the side so I work under it. They even gave me a couple rags. I got under and decided to start with the rubber hose, which I figured was the most likely candidate to have cracked. Certainly the easiest fix, which is my own personal version of Occam's razor -- start with the easiest possible fix.
+
+I clamped the rubber hose coming out of the tank and cut it lose from the joint, trimmed a couple of inches and stuck it back on with two new hose clamps. The dripping stopped. I went up and started the engine and went back to have a look. Still dripping. Damn. I turned it off and crawled back under to take apart the joint and get some pipe dope in there. I put a good amount of pipe dope on all three pieces, but as I was tightening it I was causing gas to come dripping out. I spun around a connector piece that seemed weak and realized it was cracked, bingo. Bought a new piece from the shop, which had some brass fittings, for $3, doped it all out and tightened everything back up. Started the engine and no leaks. A little over an hour and only $3 -- if only all the bus problems were that easily solved.
+
+I took the long way out of Mancos, but we were back on the road by noon.
+
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0089_01.jpg" id="image-733" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0090.jpg" id="image-734" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Needless to say hitting the road at the crack of noon, while pretty good considering, was not good when we had about four hours to go. We've adopted what some fulltimers call the 2, 2, 2 policy (never drive more than two hours, never get there later than 2 o'clock and never stay less than two days). There was no way we were going to make it by two and in this case it was more than arbitrary, we knew a big storm was supposed to roll in to where we were headed that evening. And let's just say that spending my morning under rather than in the bus took some of my enthusiasm for further struggles away.
+
+By two o'clock we were well on our way to Naturita, but it was hard to tell where Naturita was because a massive and very nasty looking storm had swallowed the horizon. We stopped at the side of the road to regroup and rethink our options. We talked over a couple different plans and ended up deciding to backtrack a few miles to a sign we'd both noticed that said national forest access. Signs like that are all over the place around here, sometimes the national forest ends up being a couple miles, sometimes it's twenty or thirty. It's always a gamble, but gambling beats a certain storm so we headed off down a dirt road that, as they tend to do, got progressively worse until it practically dove off a cliff down to the banks of the Dolores river.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-723" class="picwide caption" />
+
+At the bottom of the canyon was the most decayed, ramshackle national campground I've ever encountered. Perfect. Even the signs were falling apart.
+
+<img src="images/2017/20170807_143027.jpg" id="image-736" class="picwide" />
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-726" class="picwide" />
+
+We found a site way off by itself -- not that there was anyone around, in all our time down by the river we only had two other people in the campground -- about 30 feet from the water and headed down to the river for a swim.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-724" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-725" class="cluster picwide" />
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+</span>
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+
+Hot days, cold water. Just about perfect. There was even a field of sunflowers next to our campsite.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-727" class="picwide" />
+
+We liked it so much in fact that we stayed four days. We might have stayed longer, but one afternoon a couple of women foraging for herbs stopped by and we got to talking about the area and eventually we ended up talking archeology sites and potsherds. These were the women who told the story about the museum smashing pots to fit them in a drawer. But they told us about a place they said we'd have to ourselves that was full of pictographs and houses built into a rock, both new and old. Naturally we had to go so we packed up and left the next day.
+
+I'll write about that adventure next time, but I've been thinking ever since about how if it weren't for the bus's fuel line cracking we'd have never seen the Dolores river, and never made it to one of the best canyons we've explored in this area. Some people call this coincidence, but those people lack perception. Coincidence only exists when you're not paying attention. There are no coincidences, just massively complicated intricate patterns we can't begin to comprehend. At best you can feel them moving around you, moving through you, you can reach out and touch them, bounce from node to node for a while. It's a bit like lying in a river, everything flowing around, over and through you.
+
+One of the things about living on the road is that the highs tend to be higher and the lows correspondingly lower, which produces an odd kind of balance and has a lot to teach about the center, but you also learn that the highs and lows are not separate things, they're interrelated and connected in all kinds of interesting and malleable ways. There are not hard and fast lines between high and low moments like our brains would have us pretend there are. Each point in the pattern, each node in the network gets information from all the other. Everything needs everything else. Everything feeds back through to everything else. No broken fuel line, no Dolores river. It just wouldn't be as fun any other way.
+
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-730" class="picwide" />
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+ <p>After our <a href="/jrnl/2017/08/canyoneering">adventures in the canyon country</a> we headed north, through the hordes of Moab and back east toward Grand Junction, where we did a bit of resupplying. Around these parts Grand Junction qualifies as a big city and it had some things we needed so we stopped off and ran errands for a day. </p>
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+<figcaption>The entrance to Arches National Park. No idea how long it takes to wade through that line.</figcaption>
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+
+<p>After that we headed up the valley toward Montrose with the vague idea that we&#8217;d spend a night at Ridgway State Park and then find some boondocking spot after that.</p>
+<p>As sometimes happens with us, one night turned into a week and then nearly two. It wasn&#8217;t that Ridgway State Park was phenomenally nice or anything, it wasn&#8217;t at all. Like most Colorado state parks it packs a ton of people in a small space, but it did have a lake with a nice swimming beach beach for the kids and quick access to the town of Ridgway where some people we knew from our old neighborhood had moved last year. The kids hit it off and the adults too so we ended up hanging around almost two weeks. </p>
+<p>And one thing Ridgway State Park did have was some amazing views of the Cimmarron Range and the back side of the San Juans (if we didn&#8217;t have an ancient, somewhat underpowered Dodge Travco we could have just driven here from Durango in about five hours instead of three weeks, but where&#8217;s the fun in that? </p>
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+<p>One day we attempted the drive up to Owl Creek Pass. We didn&#8217;t make it all the way, but the kids did have one of their rare, please take our picture, moments.</p>
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+ </a>
+<figcaption>When I walked back to get the car Elliott chased after me so I could take a picture of &#8220;just me, no one else, just me&#8221;.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>I spent the mornings working, sometimes on the kind of work that pays the bills, sometimes on the bus, which has been plagued by a string of small, but irritating problems that were no fun at all. Like a leaking black tank. Happy to say that that one seems solved. The others will rear their head in the next post.</p>
+<p>The afternoons were spent by the lake, swimming, digging in the sand, catching strange stomach viruses, all the good things you get from reservoirs.</p>
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+<p>I took one afternoon off to scout the road to Dallas divide. The car did fine, the views of the San Juans were beautiful, but the bus&#8230; probably not.</p>
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+<p>The high point of the area for us &#8212; aside from visiting with friends &#8212; was the town of Ridgway. It&#8217;s small, about 1100 I believe, but has a surprisingly diverse collection of people and views packed into it. It&#8217;s the sort of place we could pass a few years I suspect. </p>
+<p>Just north of it is Ouray, which, while admittedly very pretty and a bit higher in the mountains, was a little touristy for our tastes. We had a fun afternoon, ate some ice cream, people watched and bought some fuses for a bus project, but were never compelled to return.</p>
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+Ridgway State Park
+==================
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2017/08/ridgway-state-park>
+ Thursday, 24 August 2017
+
+After our [adventures in the canyon country][1] we headed north, through the hordes of Moab and back east toward Grand Junction, where we did a bit of resupplying. Around these parts Grand Junction qualifies as a big city and it had some things we needed so we stopped off and ran errands for a day.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-758" class="picwide caption" />
+
+After that we headed up the valley toward Montrose with the vague idea that we'd spend a night at Ridgway State Park and then find some boondocking spot after that.
+
+As sometimes happens with us, one night turned into a week and then nearly two. It wasn't that Ridgway State Park was phenomenally nice or anything, it wasn't at all. Like most Colorado state parks it packs a ton of people in a small space, but it did have a lake with a nice swimming beach beach for the kids and quick access to the town of Ridgway where some people we knew from our old neighborhood had moved last year. The kids hit it off and the adults too so we ended up hanging around almost two weeks.
+
+And one thing Ridgway State Park did have was some amazing views of the Cimmarron Range and the back side of the San Juans (if we didn't have an ancient, somewhat underpowered Dodge Travco we could have just driven here from Durango in about five hours instead of three weeks, but where's the fun in that?
+
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-766" class="picwide" />
+
+One day we attempted the drive up to Owl Creek Pass. We didn't make it all the way, but the kids did have one of their rare, please take our picture, moments.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-760" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-761" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-762" class="picwide caption" />
+
+I spent the mornings working, sometimes on the kind of work that pays the bills, sometimes on the bus, which has been plagued by a string of small, but irritating problems that were no fun at all. Like a leaking black tank. Happy to say that that one seems solved. The others will rear their head in the next post.
+
+The afternoons were spent by the lake, swimming, digging in the sand, catching strange stomach viruses, all the good things you get from reservoirs.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-763" class="picwide" />
+
+I took one afternoon off to scout the road to Dallas divide. The car did fine, the views of the San Juans were beautiful, but the bus... probably not.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-764" class="picwide" />
+
+The high point of the area for us -- aside from visiting with friends -- was the town of Ridgway. It's small, about 1100 I believe, but has a surprisingly diverse collection of people and views packed into it. It's the sort of place we could pass a few years I suspect.
+
+Just north of it is Ouray, which, while admittedly very pretty and a bit higher in the mountains, was a little touristy for our tastes. We had a fun afternoon, ate some ice cream, people watched and bought some fuses for a bus project, but were never compelled to return.
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+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-25_175035_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-769" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-27_101130_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-770" class="picwide" />
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+
+[1]: /jrnl/2017/08/canyoneering
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