Day 8 - Santa Fe, NM to Mesa Verde National Park (Cortez, CO)

This will be VERY brief -- the real entry will be posted tomorrow -- since I've been given 15 minutes of airline from the basement office of the Far View Lodge where I am staying the night. (The rooms don't have telephones or TVs.) ARAMARK holds the concession for lodgings in this National Park, which was voted the TOP MONUMENT in teh 1999 reader's poll of Conde Nast's "Traveller Magazine, according to the plaque on one of the walls. It's all about location: the lodge looks like a run-down strip-mall Motel 6 at three times the price. More tomorrow!