In Boulder, we paid to go into the Anasazi State Park Museum. Excavations at the site have uncovered about a hundred rooms and structures used by ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians. ("Anasazi" is apparently a derogatory term used by the Navajo Indians to refer to the Ancestral Pueblo.)
The park has also created a six-room replica of part of the pueblo. I had to stoop down and turn sideways to get through the door, and the living space is about ten by ten, so it is small, even by modern motel standards. The people who lived here probably did not want to spend a lot of time and effort gathering building materials.
View out the back of the park:
The drive through Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument was amazing. There were parts of the highway where, just a couple of feet across the white line, the shoulder fell off a bluff six or seven hundred feet down. No guard rails or anything. This is another case where you couldn't stop and take photos of the most amazing parts, but here is a panoramic view from a pull off area:
View of Powell Point from a later viewpoint on Route 12:
We are now in the Elk Lodge of Ruby's Inn, just outside of Bryce Canyon National Park.
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