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Marseille, Cosquer

I had been through Marseille decades ago while visiting French towns where Impressionist artists had painted (links below), but it was just a train connection. This time I had a day to wander and visit one more ancient cave painting site. My wanderings were planned…

Arles

Just a short train ride from Montpellier is the town of Arles, in the south of France, where Vincent Van Gogh lived for a year. Artist Paul Gauguin joined him there for two months, a turbulent cohabitation. Van Gogh created over three hundred paintings there,…

Montpellier

On the last day of my tour across the south of France to see prehistoric painted caves, we arrived in Montpellier. It had been a week since we were in a real city; I admit to being a bit reluctant to leave those picturesque villages…

Petroglyph National Monument

Along seventeen miles of the escarpment west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the Rio Grande valley, an estimated 24,000 petroglyphs, images carved into rock by ancient Pueblo peoples are protected in this preserved park. I have read dates for these rock carvings as far back…

Old Town Albuquerque

A destination site on my list for this March road trip was just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, so I stayed in the city. My arrival afternoon was spent wandering the restored Old Town area, filled with shops and galleries in its historic adobe structures. The…

Chaco Canyon

The historic civilizations of the Americas have left many of their structures to tell their stories. Chaco Canyon has been well excavated and preserved in what is now called Chaco Culture National Historic Park in New Mexico, situated in Navajo country. Created in 1907, the…

Antelope Canyon

The tall and varied shapes towering over the landscape are the most obvious red rock carvings of nature when driving or hiking through the U.S. Southwest. But there are hidden treasures that are not as evident. I have often admired photos of Antelope Canyon, in…

Monument Valley, Horseshoe Bend

Along the way on my southwestern road trip, there were a few short but memorable stops. The iconic Monument Valley, a configuration of towering rocks rising in an otherwise mostly flat desert setting, was the site of many Western movies. Listen for the clopping of…

Road trip, Arches

Setting out on a ten-day March road trip around the U.S. Southwest, the first two stops were favorite places I’d been before and had returned several times. I alternated between a day of driving and a day at a destination. As I was entering the…

ICE Out, Denver

Sitting at my desk Friday morning, January 30, I read in the Denver Post that many restaurants, businesses, and schools would be closed that day for ICE Out demonstrations. Other businesses pledged to donate a percentage of their profits to local immigrant rights organizations. I…

Chauvet, 200th post!

Chauvet-Pont d’Arc in Ardèche, France, an enormous, stunning, prehistoric painted cave, is closed for preservation. Its replica, called Chauvet 2, opened to the public in 2015. The original cave is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The oldest site I visited on this journey…

L’Aven d’Orgnac, Sarlat

The painted caves I visited in the south of France did not, for the most part, exhibit the concretions usually seen in caves formed, and still forming, by water. It is thought that the lack of moisture and leaking or dripping water that created other…

Les Combarelles, Pech-Merle caves

The next two days, on this south of France journey, we ventured into two more natural caves that had been open to the air for thousands of years. Like Font-de-Gaume, the caves were preserved as much as possible, once their significance was realized, with minimal…

Lascaux

In 1940, four teenage boys and their dogs explored the grounds around the old Lascaux castle, in the Périgord region of France, looking for treasure. Robot, the dog, fell into a hole. They were able to rescue him, and could see there was an underground cave.…

Les Eyzies, Font-de-Gaume cave

Picturesque Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, which calls itself the Center of Prehistory in Dordogne, France is surrounded by cliffs and rock formations, and is home to caves, shelters, and remains from tens of thousands of years and more in the past. It’s situated in the Vézère Valley,…

Saintes, Saint-Césaire

The themes for this week-long tour across the south of France were Neanderthals, early humans, and prehistoric painted caves. As someone who has a degree in fine art and has studied art history, I signed up for the cave art. But we had one more…

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