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North to Silverton Colorado
This is one scenic road! We stopped at Molas Pass to use the "facilities" which are very modern compost toilets. Across from the facilites is a small rise with a paved walk. Don't miss it! Once you are up on the top, in front of you is the 180 degrees knock your socks off mountain to valley to mountain view. This is Molas Pass. We headed on a …
The best place we've visited!!
We re-met Garry and Kathy on Main Street whilst heading for our breakfast and they said we should look them up if we got down into Louisiana - to be honest we weren't quite sure of the surname or the place and wished we'd taken better details. We've named him Huckleberry and sure hope he doesn't mind because it's meant in a friendly way. We had our …
Amazing steam-train journey
We both managed to get zero sleep last night for some reason but arose at 6am to drive down to Durango crossing a 10,900 summit in the process thru more pine-covered mountains. It was 45F and the road was empty - another amazing road. We found the train station at the end of Main Street and after a Starbucks coffee and a bagel from a nearby café we …
My birthday!!
The night before, Mike had been telling me about the crowds in Telluride, and how they always arrive at dawn to grab the best seats for events. Clearly, that took hold in my mind, as I was awake, or dreaming about not getting a good seat, for most of the night. As such, I was up at about 6 am, and dragging my Cute Blonde Boy with me to place our chairs as close to the finish ...
A Hike Down Memory Lane
When Nevada and I get together we got a lot to talk about. We reminisce a bit, talk about our recent past and the new additions to the family - some more than others, and of course discuss politics and guns. 2 things that we just can't ever seem to agree on. Having said all that, we still can't wait to get together to bounce more radical ideas off each other and see who will blow up ...