Breakfast at the Best Western is a sad affair. Yes, is has everything but in name only. Coffee in a squirt dispenser, scrambled egg in a gelatinous blob, orange juice that has never seen an orange and a pancake making machine.
Moving on we buy a couple of bottles of water at the supermarket and drive south through magnificent country stopping several times for major roadworks and lunch at a totally unmemorable town for a lunch at a Mexican restaurant. The first interesting stop was Ouray, a town at the bottom of a huge valley, most impressive. Mary bought some dog leads,
The road out is called the million dollar highway, presumably because of the cost of building it. It runs up across a more or less vertical cliff with no barrier to between the cars and the drop. We follow a huge truck laden with pipes which gives plenty of time to stop, take photos of abandond mines and the like and catch him up again.
A coffee at Durango re invigorates us enough to get to the impressively located Far View Lodge at Mesa Verde park without driving off the road. It’s been a big day driving and the jet lag is still with us. The cabins are somewhat basic but comfortable and dinner (at the lodge) and drinks are most welcome.
Cowboy Country
Mesa Verde
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