4/8 Gila Cliff Dwellings was always a place that I wanted to go and now that we made the two hour drive up the forty four mile road. I think I looked at the rear of the Tahoe on several of those turns but it was a fun drive and we finally left the desert and made it into pine trees. Then it was climbing back up into the mountains and the desert scrub reappeared.
Our camera batteries ran out on the way up to the dwellings. Just so you know and if you are handicap and think this would be cool to see, enjoy the pictures because you're not getting there. It is a steep trail with steps up and down and well, wheelchairs don't work there. I hung out with Iris and read my book, ugh...there is a theme here.
To the pictures!
We encountered our first sign for rocks defecating on cars.
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| I stole this image off the internet. This isn't from the road we were on but we saw lots of them. |
The Gila River People built these impressive buildings and lived in them for only twenty years. They built them in 1280 something. The buildings were there when the Apache moved into the area. It wasn't until the white man showed up that things went missing, got broken and destroyed. It is said that the whites did not have the connection with the land that the natives did because the whites believed that it was their destiny to concur the land and use it for whatever purposes that they deemed fit. Believing that it was here for their use and they would eventually move on to heaven so there was no real point that they establish a connection with the earth like the natives.
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| The T shape window opening was originally Pueblo architecture. |
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