Gable House Bed and Breakfast Durango
805 E. Fifth Ave. Durango, Colorado, 81301, United States
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Million Dollar Road
... we did. The drive to Silverton then on to Ouray was spectacular. No other words for it. We had a particularly gorgeous day, were doing the drive in the late afternoon, and had snow-covered peaks every direction we looked.
Silverton was a bit sad -- clearly clinging desperately until summer and the train season. We had coffee and admired the brightly colored ...
Mesas Roja y Verde
... It is suprisingly small -- feels almost 8:10 scale. Still, one can picture the village full of people, dogs, and domesticated stock. A couple of kivas were roofless, so you could see the ventilation shaft, and the symbolic hole that represents how humans emerged to the earth. Another kiva is accessible, although reconstructed and without the holes in the floor.
From Spruce House, we did the Mesa Top drive, with its myriad ...
Durango, Colorado!
... the town having a look at the shops.
A girl in our group was feeling sick and starting hyperventilating when we were up in the mountains so she went to the local hospital. She ended up having a chest infection and the flu. We are not sitting next to her on the bus and have kept our distance! Her appointment cost $500 and the medication $200. A huge expensive if you don’t have ...
Million Dollar Highway
Wow Day 14, two weeks on the road and more to come. Tomorrow I start exploring southern Colorado.
Today was a short ride of 272 kms from Grand Junction to Durango but what a ride. One section is called the Million Dollar Highway which rumour has it that it cost a million dollars per mile to build. Try looking up the Million Dollar Highway on Wikipedia and it uses words like "challenging, potentially hazardous,
steep cliffs, narrow lanes, and ...
Ein Stück Wilder Westen
... unserer hart arbeitenden Lok, dem wir in unserem Sightseeingwagen ohne Fensterscheiben natürlich gnadenlos ausgelifert waren. Schon nach den ersten 5 Minuten hatte sich ein halbes Bergwerk auf meinen frisch gewaschenen, schönen hellen Hosen angesammelt, und selbst eine (nun schwarz gefärbte) Dusche später finde ich noch immer Kohlekrümel in meinen Haaren. Anyway, eigentlich wollte ich ja etwas über die Szenerie erzählen.
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