Trip to Durango Co

Before we turned in last night we were sitting on the patio having some cold beverages and talking about a trip to Durango Colorado. Sherri and I had been there with our good friends Mike and Leslie John and Bridget several years ago and really enjoyed the visit there. Rodney and Becky have never been there so we decided to get up early in the morning and head over Wolf Creek Pass and see what we could discover in Durango.
Morning came and off we went on our 2 1/2 hour journey over the mountains. The weather was perfect and we had an uneventful trip...other than some of the gasp Sherri let out when we took the big curve on the pass that begins the trip down the western side of the mountain. I was thinking about that country and western song about the trucker who was going down the pass and lost his breaks! Don't know the artist or the name of the song but it did come to mind when I was going down.
We had a great time in Durango. Found our favorite place to eat there...Serious BBQ. This is a small chain here in this part of Colorado. Some fellows out of Texas came up here and opened up a BBQ place that served good ol Texas BBQ. I will have to say that outside of Texas this BBQ is the best I have eaten. If you are ever in Durango be sure to look this place up and try it out.

We posed on the deck over looking the river that runs behind the restaurant

We then went over to the train museum and spent some time looking at all the memorabilia of an age gone by. Old trains fascinate me. As a small boy in Childress Texas I remember hearing the locomotives coming into town blowing their steam whistles...such an eerie sound late at night.

Kris was taking the engine out of the museum on a journey up the mountains

The Durango Silverton train is something to see but I will tell you this it is very expensive to take a trip on. When we were here last it was $85.00 pp to take the trip...now it is $134.00 to go. That was OK we did not want to take the trip anyway. We did find a Jeep trail that goes across the mountains to Silverton from the Rio Grande reservoir. I don't think Sherri will be taking that one either.
We returned home and the trip back was as fascinating as the trip going. I had never been up the west bound slop of Wolf Creek so this was an adventure for me. We did stop at the top and get some pictures of the divide. Durango was in the 90's when we got there so we really enjoyed the 58 degree temps on the summit when we arrived. The last time we were in front of this sign was 38 years ago. Well it wasn't this sign at that time but it was in this location.

38 years ago we stood here and had a picture, much like this taken

Down the mountain we went and through the...New to us...tunnels to South Fork where we turned north up the Silver Thread Highway to Creede.

What a wonderful day it was...full of memories here...

Somewhere in Time