We are presently driving in Colorado…we have left the mountains and are in the flat lands and they are FLAT! We see lots of horses and cattle.
The last Lori wrote was our drive out of Arizona. Do not mention Four Corners to me! I’ve changed the name to F-in Four Corners! I didn’t want to go there anyway! Grrrrrr
We drove until we found a Casino…we thought we could get a cheap dinner. It was probably the worst meal we’ve had on our trip. It wasn’t horrible but nothing to write home about - so why am I writing???? Who knows! We drove on to Cortez, Colorado where we unhappily realized that we had a low tire. After driving around for a service station with air to fill that sucker up,we headed to Durango. We found a nice Best Western (no thanks to Hotel.com who said that there was only one room with a double bed - I like Lori a lot - but not that much!).
Saturday we forced ourselves out of bed at 6:30 (after checking in at midnight - yawn!) to grab breakfast and head for the Durango-Silverton Railroad where we enjoyed the ride through the gorge cut by the Animas River to the historic city of Silverton. What a fantastic ride that was…the words glorious, stupendous, marvelous, awesome, Holy Cow! don’t come close to describing the ride! We had a great lunch at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant called Handlebar Mustache (I know what the Glenn Dale folks are thinking about!) We didn’t have much time to check out the town (next time I’m spending a couple days up there!). We hopped on a van that took us back to Durango. The van driver told us tales of the area. I can’t remember any of them right now! I was worried that that after the train ride, that this wouldn’t be much fun but the view was spectacular! He took us to the company headquarters for our raft ride! Yes, we took an awesome ride down the Animas River! Much of the river was calm but we had up to 3 rapids…enough to have a bit of fun without scaring the crap out of us. It was fantastic! We highly recommend rafting! I was envious of the kayakers out there. I’m ready to try river kayaking!
(Oh, Lordy! Lori is waving at Cowboys!)
We returned to the car dying of thirst! We also had a tire dying of air! Yikes 12 pounds‼ We drove across the street to fill it up - then to Sonic for slushes - then to Wal-Mart for tire repair. The 10 minute procedure was going to take 1.5 hours! What???? We were hot, tired, hungry and maybe a bit grumpy! So, we left the car and walked the 3 miles (this could be a slight exaggeration) it took to get from one end of Wal-Mart to the other…it was the biggest Wal-Mart we’d ever seen! We found a shop for wine that we needed to go with our pizza dinner, we planned to order to have delivered to the room, and a spa to have our toes done (this trip hasn’t done our toes any favors). I could have fallen asleep in that massage chair! The car wasn’t ready when we got back but only had a few more minutes to wait.
We went back to the room and enjoyed our wine and pizza watching HGTV and working on the blog. AND a great night’s sleep! We didn’t get up until 9:00! Lazy‼
Today we have wandered through a few shops in Durango, stood on a “hill” that was 11,700 ft high right on the Continental Divide, stood in snow, seen a small herd of buffalo (farmed but we’ll take it), driven out the magnificent Rockies while listening to John Denver, and now we continue to drive to lower elevations (Rocky Ford is only 4000 something).
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