In the morning after a delicious breakfast at Jean Pierre’s French bakery in Durango, we head north through the San Juan Mountains, along what is called the Million Dollar Highway. As we drove through the mountains, gaining elevation, the air became clearer, the vegetation lush and green and the peaks higher. The highest pass, Red […]
An Afternoon at Mesa Verde
Our car chugs up the long and winding road and we open the windows to let in the cooler air. We had just been to the visitor center and bought our tour tickets to Cliff Place, one of the the cliff dwellings which can be visited with a ranger. I had forgotten what it looked […]
Sunrise to Sunset: Arches National Park
We stepped out of the car during the morning blue hour and the Three Gossips greeted us. It was quiet and the morning air barely stirred. We got back late from Dead Horse Point after staying to enjoy the sunset, and we were up very early the next morning in order to be at Arches […]
