Thursday, January 13, 2011
Travelors[sic] Lodge, Eads, CO -- 9/18-19
The whole reason for our easterly route back to ABQ was to visit the Sand Creek Massacre Natl Monument with Mark Collier. Our original plan was to dry-camp at a State Wildlife Area, but the predicted hot weather & vague answers regarding the camping available at the Wildlife Area made us look around for other options. A quick Internet search revealed a motel in Eads, which had a different name when we brought it up on our mapping software, but with the same phone number that, when we called, they answered with a third name. They assured us that they did indeed have RV parking, and since it would be closer than the SWA, we decided to stay there. The town of Eads has certainly seen better days, and the motel even more so. The office said "closed" so we walked around & finally found a few very scroungy-looking RV spots that, for all appearance, had not been used for years. One seemed suitable, and we drove in & set up. Doug went to pay & found the "manager", a very pregnant young woman who proceeded to regale Doug with the trials & tribulations of her & her boyfriend's love life over the past couple of years. After detaching himself from her, he called Mark C, who was on his way down, to let him know exactly where we were. The next day we drove out to Sand Creek Massacre NM and we were all suitably appalled & depressed. Even a month at Badlands learning of the US Govt's despicable treatment of the Lakota people did not temper our shock at the disregard for human life exhibited during the slaughter, or for the praise awarded the participants afterwards.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:13 AM 
