Alpine Motel Durango
3515 North Main Street Durango, Colorado, 81301, United States
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Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Today we rode on a "fall photographers special" of the famous Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. We departed at 7:00am and returned at 7:30pm. Along the way we had numerous photo run-bys where we detrained and then photographed the train steaming past us.
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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 ...
Ouray
... but it is always worth it. We drove by huge ranches around Ridgeway (Ralph Lauren's ranch is nearby and his son married Lauren Bush there this weekend). Then we started up into the mountains. We stopped in Ouray for lunch. What a neat town - it is called the Switzerland of America and it looks like it. We parked right in front of an art gallery....uh oh....I found a painting ...
Friends
... much has changed since then - more casinos, the train trench downtown, all of the swampland development in Damonte, the Aces stadium... We shared our experiences with 99c steak and eggs, and I enthusiastically told him about Awful Awful (seriously - how can anyone who has lived in Reno NOT know about the Awful Awful?!).
He spoke of all the great rock concerts he went to at the Hilton (Bally's, MGM, Sierra Grande, whatever ...
Flagstaff to Durango - Soldiers Nationals
... thermal tops and her rain suite as well.
We stopped off at a MacDonald's for a good greasy breakfast, where Sonja played around taking a few pictures. From there we headed out to Durango, the weather was really fantastic. The group warned us that it normally rains in Durango, but before Durango at Four Corners it is normally unbearably hot. We were really blessed with the weather; Four Corners was cool (in comparison to normal) and Durango was hot and sunny.
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