A fun trip to Durango Colorado

We got to take an amazing trip last week.  It was

fast and each day was filled with lots to see and

I have so many photos and fun memories from all

the places we got to stop. I am just going to share a

few with all of you today just to see all the amazing 

things we have in the US to see....

 This was my first view of Mesa Verde National Park

 and I was just speechless when I stuck my head over

the canyon walls.  800 years ago a tribe of indians made

their home in the side of this canyon 100s of feet from

the canyon floor and it was just incredible.  Our

guide was a native Navajo man and it was so

wonderful to hear the stories he had to tell us.

 There are quite a few of these villages in the side

of the rocks in Mesa Verde but this was my favorite.

 There was an artist in Four Corners who made

hand carved plates and pottery and used native dies

to color them.  They were gorgeous and each carving

was a symbol of something special.  I would have loved

to get one of each from her!!  She was also from a 

Navajo tribe and her father was the medicine man. 

I so traveling and meeting people from around the 

globe.  It is amazing how different each of us is :)

It's great that I got to be in 4 states in a matter

of just minutes!  Great things to buy there too!

 This was just a neat bunch of rocks on the Navajo

reservation.  Not much there but it sure is pretty.

 When we got to Durango Colorado we took the

train up to Silverton.  It was the most beautiful

trip and we saw so many pretty places along the way.

 This is one of the streets up in Silverton.  It gets

pretty cold in the winter and they said there is only

about 200 people there then.  Lots of people

came up on the trains and there was lots of shops

and things to eat, but I was mostly interested in

all the old buildings and museums.  It was awesome!

This is a part of the town that looked like when 

all the miners were there in the late 1800's.  Must

have been one rowdy town then....

 The engines they use are the original steam

locomotives and they still use coal and water

to power them.  We went 50 miles up and used

half the coal in the back of the engine and 2 

stops for water.  Soooo fun!!

When we got back to town we found they had

a museum that had lots and lots of the old train

things on display.. I love the old model T cars

and everyone was really nice there.

 This is one of the Old Hotels in Durango.  Inside

was just beautiful and all the furnishings and lights

and things were still there.  The town is lined up

on Main street with lots of old buildings and lots

of places to eat and things to do.  This town has 

so many outdoors things to do and I would love

to live here someday... 

 Our last stop and our favorite on our trip 

is to Zion National Park.  We went a different

way in coming from Colorado and went by

an old town that they used to film alot of

the old Westerns in.  It was really pretty and 

there were lots of people there this time

out hiking in the beautiful weather.

So that's it for today and thanks so much for

stopping in and seeing some of the wonderful

places we got to go...  

Teresa