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Follow along with us on our travels with our motor home. Minnesota is our home, but we go south for the winter. Yes, we are Snowbirds. We love traveling and want to share our experiences with you. This will be our third time traveling south to avoid the cold Minnesota winters. Our travels began in late October with the first destination of Concord, New Hampshire, and New Haven, Connecticut, to visit family before heading south and will eventually get to Arizona before returning to Minnesota in April.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Montezuma Castle

This morning we went to see Montezuma Castle National Monument.  Early settlers assumed it was Aztec in origin, hence the name Montezuma Castle.  We now know that Montezuma never came this far north from his home in Mexico, but the name has stuck.

Montezuma Castle National Monument
Interesting as it was, it did not take long to view Montezuma Castle and we went up the road to see Montezuma Well.  The well is a very old limestone sink hole fed by natural springs.  The Southern Sinagua irrigated crops with its waters.  You can still see the irrigation ditches.  There are also cliff dwellings on the wall around the hole.

Montezuma Well
We got back to the RV park early, so went for a walk on a dirt 4-wheeler trail that leads away from the park.  We didn't find anything interesting out there, but it was a nice walk.

4-wheeler trail in the country

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