Personal Narrative: Mesa Verde Visitor

The fresh morning air was cool against my face. Father had been gone for a while now, he had been called by his work for some “serious business.” As my sister Aliah, and I played in the pond by our 2 story house, we heard a faint muttering of Father’s pick-up.

Every summer I look forward to sitting on a large, warm cabana under the Texas sun. My feet buried in the sand as I welcome the lukewarm waves against my legs. Being a beach bum in South Padre Island, Texas is a great way to bring on the summer. This island isn’t short of attractions, from the beautiful ocean, to tasty restaurants, to fireworks over the ocean you will never get bored on your vacation! Last summer I was joined by a few of my closest friends. We made so many memories as we all went parasailing for the first time. Our relationship grew stronger as we were able to share a new experience together. Spending a few weeks in South Padre Island with family and close friends is a great way to make memories that will last a lifetime.

Around 650 A.D., the Mesa Verdean peoples initiated construction of apartment-style homes, termed by Spanish explorers as pueblos. The Puebloan architecture is original in that it utilized the local stone and mud deposits of the region to maintain the structural integrity of their burgeoning developments. As this community evolved into the twelfth century, Mesa Verdeans further integrated the geology of their environment into their lifestyles by building homes, known as cliff dwellings, within the naturally formed alcoves of Mesa Verde. By the thirteenth century, the Mesa Verdeans vacated this region due to severe droughts and subsequent social instability. Despite the later abandonment of their cliff dwellings, it is clear that the geology of Mesa Verde National Park impacted the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans significantly. The following sections provide detailed information regarding the rock formations that make up the geological

Tonight he wouldn’t get much sleep. He hugged his arms to his chest and let his teeth chatter. He hadn’t been this cold since he had nearly drowned trying to escape more than a year ago. “It’s warmer in the cabin if you want.” Called Peter’s hesitant voice.”

I've been abandoned all alone in a trailer park in Gallup, New Mexico. I just received a phone saying i was dead and my mom was in the hospital.

Located in the southwestern part of Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park was the home of Ancestral Puebloans from AD 600 to 1300. Located within the park are thousands of archaeological sites and hundreds of cliff dwellings. Whether you have half of a day or a week at the park, there are many opportunities to see not only the cliff homes that were built so long ago, but also to enjoying some truly amazing geographically features in and around the park. When the Ancestral Pueblo first inhabited this area, they lived on the mesa tops, close to their farmlands, but during the 1190s, they “began living in pueblos they built beneath the overhanging cliffs” (Cliff Dwelling). Numerous cliff dwellings have their own names and can be visited while at the park, along with hiking, and sites on the top of the mesas.

“Sitting at the dais, I felt tired but much too excited to think about sleep. I glanced around the room and smiling faces turned toward me. Someone asked whether I was ready to leave. I shook my head. ‘I'd like to stay awhile longer.”

The geographic region of Mesa Verde captivates me because of its sheer concentration of archeological sites in an area, and the plethora of cliff dwellings found in this region of Colorado. Mesa Verde, a place ancestral Puebloan people called home for hundreds of years from 500 A.D. to the 13th century, is situated on Colorado’s diverse landscape, which consists of 4,400 archaeological sites and 600 cliff dwellings (Smith, 7). Mesa Verde National Park was officially established in the early 1900’s by Theodore Roosevelt in hopes of protecting history and preserving human culture. Since then it has been a site for thousands of archaeologists to dig in to. Before Mesa Verde was receiving the attention it gets today archeologists Bob Lister,

If you leave your car behind and join a ranger-led hike in Southwest Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, you'll find yourself at a spot where the scrubby pinyon-juniper forest drops off. It falls into a sandstone chasm. It reveals a maze of 800-year-old stone dwellings. They are wedged beneath an overhang in the canyon wall. They're so well preserved that it's easy to imagine you've stepped back in time. And that nothing has changed in this high desert landscape since the Ancestral Puebloans built these chambers. They were built in the 12th century.

Mesa Verde National Park is located in Southwest Colorado and in 1906 it was established as a park in order to preserve the structures that were built by the first settlers in the area. Mesa Verde is about 51,122 acres and has about 8 canyons within it. While its name might suggest that it’s a mesa, Mesa Verde is actually a cuesta (E. Tuttle, Harris, S. Tuttle, 2004). Mesa Verde’s history starts off around 500 A.D with the discovery of pit houses, which was one of the few signs that it was a place of permanent habitation. Pit houses were used for a number of reasons, it provided shelter during extreme weather and it was important in cultural activities. Beginning in 1100, there was an emergence in the construction of cliff dwellings which were

After he left, I walked to the basement door, feeling strangely guilty. I didn’t want him to go on thinking I hadn’t been completely normal since my accident, but I also didn’t want to tell him I’d seen grandma while I was in a coma and that she’d told me to look for some guy in a hat. Then I’d just sound crazy.

I never was a person that really got involved in school. One day in middle school I decided to join a club called MESA. At first, I wasn’t sure what it was all about ,but i decided to join anyway. As I kept attending to the meetings each week after school, I began learning more about it. MESA… mathematics… engineering… achievement… The point of MESA was to take part in a competition of your choice.

Before I went to Pathfinder Ranch, my sister told me all about it and how much fun it was. After my sister talked about it I could not wait to go and when i finally got to go it was over so fast. My experience at Pathfinder Ranch was amazing. I made so many good memories there .

The walls are made out of brown bricks.The park is on the side of a mountain.I filnd someone named Jon Forest and he shod me a artifact.

Anthony was the leader of the trail riding and knowing him if he finds anything that should be explored, we will most definitely check it out. After Andrew screaming at the top of his lungs trying to out scream his bike trying to convince Anthony why we shouldn't stop, he finally decided to just turn it off his bike and catch up with Anthony and I. Turns out it was such a great hiking spot that we decided to build a fort and spend the night there. So that's what we did, we ran back, grabbed a hatchet came back chopped some wood for a fire, gathered leaves and ferns for bedding and sharpened some sticks to make a debris hut which is basically like a circular