Sunday, June 10 dawned another warm morning with no rain in sight. We headed North toward Colorado, leaving New Mexico behind. As you enter Colorado, the sky seems bluer, the hills greener.We arrived in Durango ad began to set up what will be our home for the next five weeks. What a glorious place. The skies are so blue and the mountains green. There is so much to do in this area and the weather here seems perfect! The days are really quite warm although dry! Along with the winds the daytime temperature is comfortable. The nights cool off for very nice sleeping!! The town of Durango is not big but there is a lot of things to
see and do here. There is the Silverton Railroad, which we have taken, is a wonderful ride back in time to the silver mining town of Silverton up in the mountains. The Animas River runs through town and rafting is a popular thing. (Although with the lack of snow this past winter the water levels are rather low). Mountain biking and off road jeeping is also on the list of things to do. If fishing is your thing, there is plenty of that here also.There have been wildfires in northern Colorado, but we had not seen any here until the other day. A wild fire sprang up several mountains over. There has not been any rain here for quite a while. Open fires
and fireworks have been baned. Last evening on the way home from dinner we could see the smoke coming over the hill toward the valley where we are located. We have been informed that there is not danger here for the present time. (The last several photos show the smoke on the horizon).We are here with two other couples, so we have been having a great time sharing happy hour and dinners!
We have not been doing much sight seeing, just taking it easy and fixing things on the coach. Thank goodness they are mostly little things, but they do need to be attended to so they don't become
larger items.
We will be here until July 15th or so, and we will keep you posted on our outings.
Hope all is well with everyone,
Until later, love from the road,
Candy and Johnny
