Thursday, May 15

We didn't walk to today, both John and I we tired, so we took the day off. Carol and I decided to visit the Casa Malpais Archaeological Park right here in Springerville. Tours are given at 9am, 11am and 2pm, we took the 2pm tour. The tour starts at the Springerville Chamber of Commerce building, which also serves as a Casa Malpais museum. We followed our guide out to the park, which was about 2 miles away. This site was occupied for about 200 years and then was mysteriously abandoned about 1400 AD. There was a great kiva where the inhabitants had their religious ceremonies and we climbed up a steep basalt staircase which led to the top of the mesa. Very interesting Indian ruins. We left the ruins and went to Safeway for some grocery shopping. While there, we called John and Ruth and asked them to check our RV canopy as it was beginning to get windy. They reported that the wind had blown the canopy onto the roof. We got out of Safeway as soon as we could and went to inspect the damage. I wasn't as bad as it could have been.

The canopy was on the roof, but was not damaged. And the supporting arms seemed to be OK. Luckily, the son of the RV park owners is a RV technician, so we called him and he came out to inspect the damage. He said it wasn't too bad and that he could fix it tomorrow. Good news. We slept better knowing that. Stay tuned .....