{"id":7026,"date":"2022-07-19T19:57:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2022-07-19T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:10:33","slug":"hovenweep-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7026","title":{"rendered":"Hovenweep 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hovenweep is the name for a collection of ancentral Puebloan ruins in an area of Utah and Colorado near the four corners area.&nbsp; The people who lived here approx. 1,000 years ago grew crops and hunted, and lived in round or square structures mostly built right on ravine walls or large boulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We visited Hovenweep a few years ago and saw some of the ruins.&nbsp; This trip we saw some different ruins.&nbsp; All are similar in design and structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how these people lived and thrived in a desolate region.&nbsp; Theories that the area was not so desolate when they were here hope to explain why the people just left around 1,300AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dogs are allowed on the trails around Hovenweep but Chloe is so excitable we left her in the car when we hiked down a short trail to see some of the ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4294\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4294\">Here <\/a>is our blog entry of our previous visit, and here are some pictures of this visit:<\/p>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>.rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner{\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 50px auto;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50px;\r\n\t\t\t\theight: 40px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner > div{\r\n\t\t\t  background-color: #333;\r\n\t\t\t  height: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t  width: 6px;\r\n\t\t\t  display: inline-block;\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4a-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t  animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4a-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect2 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect3 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.0s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: -1.0s;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect4 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -0.9s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: -0.9s;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect5 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -0.8s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: -0.8s;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t@-webkit-keyframes rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4a-stretchdelay {\r\n\t\t\t  0%, 40%, 100% { -webkit-transform: scaleY(0.4) }  \r\n\t\t\t  20% { -webkit-transform: scaleY(1.0) }\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t@keyframes rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4a-stretchdelay {\r\n\t\t\t  0%, 40%, 100% { \r\n\t\t\t    transform: scaleY(0.4);\r\n\t\t\t    -webkit-transform: scaleY(0.4);\r\n\t\t\t  }  20% { \r\n\t\t\t    transform: scaleY(1.0);\r\n\t\t\t    -webkit-transform: scaleY(1.0);\r\n\t\t\t  }\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t<\/style><div class=\"robo-gallery-wrap robo-gallery-wrap-id6998 robo-gallery-grid\" ><div id=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4a-block-loader\" class=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aSpinner\"><div class=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect1\"><\/div> <div class=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect2\"><\/div> <div class=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect3\"><\/div> <div class=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect4\"><\/div> <div class=\"rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4aRect5\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"robo_gallery_main_block_rbs_gallery_69e5b12fb0c4a\" class=\"robogallery-gallery-6998\" style=\"width:100%; 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The people who lived here approx. 1,000 years ago grew crops and hunted, and lived in round or square structures mostly built right on ravine walls or large boulders. We visited Hovenweep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hovenweep 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-cortez-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}