Colorado Bound, Episode V: The Finale

   After the Great Sand Dunes National Park, we headed even further southwest to Durango. It was here that we had to part with Gunther, as our activities in Durango were not pet friendly. So we put him up in a kennel for a night. The first day, we went whitewater rafting on the Lower Animas River. It was a beginners 2-hour raft trip. And it was very mild in my book, even though I have never been rafting. It was very cold, though, and I told Jason that we needed to wait until July or August before we do another, more advanced rafting trip. It was still fun, but unfortunately our camera is not waterproof, so we did not get any photos of this adventure.
   The next days adventure was to take the old steam engine train ride from Durango to Silverton. It was a lovely ride thru the mountains.

Heading out of the flatlands and into the mountains.

We followed this river most of the way, and for this part of the trip, it was directly below us.

We stopped 2 or 3 times for water.

Hanging out, watching the world go by!

Almost to Silverton.

Our steam engine.

When I get old and have lots of old snowboards about, I'm going to make benches out of them!

Taking the bus back down into Durango gave us a little bit different scenery to look at.

After Durango, we picked up Gunther and headed north to Vail. This was called Chimney Rock.

And I can't remember what this valley was called.

This scene looked way more amazing then in the photo. There was a huge storm cloud all around us, and then there was this break right over this mountain where the sun was shining. It was really pretty!

The last day of our vacation: driving the I-70 corridor and seeing all the ski resorts.

I hope you enjoyed our journey thru Colorado!!!