We’ve had a busy couple of days. From Salida, we decided to go all the way to Durango and spend 2 nights here.
We had it all yesterday – sun, sand, mountains, rain and snow. We stopped at Great Sand Dunes National Park. It’s hard to describe some of these places and I’ve run out of other words for beautiful and amazing. Great Sand Dunes is a huge dune area with some of the highest sand dunes in North America. And they are at the foot of the Santa de Christi mountains so they look completely out of context with their surroundings. You can see from the pictures that the people climbing them are just little dots compared to them. We went up the lowest one and allowed that was enough.
Today we went to Mesa Verde NP where the Pueblo Indians once lived in the cliffs. We were unable to go to the cliff dwellings. You could only do that with a Ranger tour and they didn’t start until tomorrow. We were able to see the dwellings from the overlooks and they had a very nice museum them. I think Randy read every exhibit so we wouldn’t have time for the hike I had wanted to do. From there we went to the 4 corners where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona come together. Not much there other than to say you’ve been there. And we acted like the tourist we are and had someone take our picture. This was one of those “down days” where we spent 8 hours exploring and traveled about 250 miles round trip back to where we started
On to Moab, UT tomorrow. Check out the pictures below and drop us a comment if you wish by clicking the title of the post in the comment section.
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