8/24/11 Day 19 continued... After a stop in Durango at the Harley shop and the Texas Smoke BBQ, for the best pulled pork sandwiches, we hit the highway to Cortez, CO. On the way into town is this great view of Mesa Verde and the "silhouette of the Sleeping Ute". We had spent a day here last year and would recommend highly the tour of Mesa Verde. Rolling hills, horse ranches and cow pastoral land brought us into the town of Cortez.
Check out this view of Mesa Verde from our campsite! This was the KOA and we got a huge open field to ourselves for our tents. This was our last night to camp with Barney as he was making his way back to Orange Co, CA in the morning and we would start our journey out of Colorado towards Utah. We enjoyed a much needed swim in the pool before a thunderstorm made them kick us out! Nothing like 95 degrees with pouring down rain, thunder and lightening.... Not quite like the Northwest!
Luckily we had already set up our tents and Cowboy Mark didn't have to saw down this tree to decrease our chance of getting hit by lightening! He was practicing with the backpack saw my Dad gave us for the trip!
8/25/11 Day 20- Said our good-bye's to Barney and Mark and I took Highway 145 to Telluride, CO. We followed the Delores River on the opposite side of the mountain range of the Million Dollar Highway. We completed the "circle" of scenic byways this way! It was a pretty drive along the riverbed, canyons and small farms.
One of the little towns, Rico, along the mountains before Lizard Pass. We have fallen in love with the Colorado that we've seen so far. We may be ready to get down to some lower elevation though since we've been mostly over 6,000 feet for the majority of the 3 weeks we've been gone.
A little lake that we got to view for awhile during a construction stop. Finally, an easy picture to take while the bike was stopped! Don't have to delete the blurry ones this way!
Telluride, CO- elevation 8,792 ft. This is from the Mountain Village. Wow, what spectacular houses and lodging in this ski village town.
After lunch in town I talked Mark into a gondola ride up the mountain from town. A thunderstorm had just started and it was pouring down rain but we tackled the adventure anyway.
Just to prove that he did it! What a great way to see the town and mountain.
The journey up the gondola ride in the rainstorm! Telluride down below where we had just eaten at the local brewpub. Amazing how much you can do in 2 hours!
Leaving Telluride towards Placerville. Nice ride along the San Miguel River with an opportunity to wear our raingear for a short time. Onwards to Utah we went and the temperature just kept climbing as we weaved our way on Highway 145 in the back boonies of the southwest corner of Colorado.
8/24/11 Day 19 continued... After a stop in Durango at the Harley shop and the Texas Smoke BBQ, for the best pulled pork sandwiches, we hit the highway to Cortez, CO. On the way into town is this great view of Mesa Verde and the "silhouette of the Sleeping Ute". We had spent a day here last year and would recommend highly the tour of Mesa Verde. Rolling hills, horse ranches and cow pastoral land brought us into the town of Cortez.
Check out this view of Mesa Verde from our campsite! This was the KOA and we got a huge open field to ourselves for our tents. This was our last night to camp with Barney as he was making his way back to Orange Co, CA in the morning and we would start our journey out of Colorado towards Utah. We enjoyed a much needed swim in the pool before a thunderstorm made them kick us out! Nothing like 95 degrees with pouring down rain, thunder and lightening.... Not quite like the Northwest!
Luckily we had already set up our tents and Cowboy Mark didn't have to saw down this tree to decrease our chance of getting hit by lightening! He was practicing with the backpack saw my Dad gave us for the trip!
8/25/11 Day 20- Said our good-bye's to Barney and Mark and I took Highway 145 to Telluride, CO. We followed the Delores River on the opposite side of the mountain range of the Million Dollar Highway. We completed the "circle" of scenic byways this way! It was a pretty drive along the riverbed, canyons and small farms.
One of the little towns, Rico, along the mountains before Lizard Pass. We have fallen in love with the Colorado that we've seen so far. We may be ready to get down to some lower elevation though since we've been mostly over 6,000 feet for the majority of the 3 weeks we've been gone.
A little lake that we got to view for awhile during a construction stop. Finally, an easy picture to take while the bike was stopped! Don't have to delete the blurry ones this way!
Telluride, CO- elevation 8,792 ft. This is from the Mountain Village. Wow, what spectacular houses and lodging in this ski village town.
After lunch in town I talked Mark into a gondola ride up the mountain from town. A thunderstorm had just started and it was pouring down rain but we tackled the adventure anyway.
Just to prove that he did it! What a great way to see the town and mountain.
The journey up the gondola ride in the rainstorm! Telluride down below where we had just eaten at the local brewpub. Amazing how much you can do in 2 hours!
Leaving Telluride towards Placerville. Nice ride along the San Miguel River with an opportunity to wear our raingear for a short time. Onwards to Utah we went and the temperature just kept climbing as we weaved our way on Highway 145 in the back boonies of the southwest corner of Colorado.
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