May 19, 2015...Goodbye Utah....sniff-sniff...and hello Colorado, our dear friend!

Got up early as we really wanted to get on the road and get set up in Colorado as early in the day as we can. We did some work last night which may today easier, so we were on the road right at 8, stopped for gas, made phone calls to the kids, etc. so it was really about 8:45 before we were on the road. We quickly hit rain, then tiny hail, then sleet, then light snow about the time we were at the Utah/Colorado line. 

 This was the best sign picture I had because it was foggy and snowing!

We stayed in that until we got on Hwy 184 headed toward Cortez and finally blue skies and the sun broke out! Thankful for that, as pulling a trailer, in switchback roads is enough, we are so happy for dry roads! We were excited to get to Colorado but Utah has been so wonderful and the beauty so unexpected. We were looking forward to the mountains, trees and brooks that we know await us in Colorado, though the weather forecast said they were expecting a cold front so we wondered if we would get any fishing in! I was sure hoping so as I had not gotten to do any this trip.  

Fun to see those mountains with the snow on them...and know we are getting closer to our dear Colorado!

 We arrived in Durango around 12:30, got the trailer to its spot and since it was raining we just went straight inside and ate lunch and by the time we had eaten the rain had stopped for a bit, so we then got things hooked up, at least enough for the day.
Trees in the campground...oh yeah baby!

We actually set things up a bit more after this but this is the best picture I found.

 
Then we drove back into Durango, taking a scenic route that the ladies in the office told us about…beautiful! Went downtown for about an hour, just to get a feel for what we might want to do and then went to City Market for a few groceries and then back to the campground. 

 

These are some super cool sculptures made totally out of railroad spikes. 






This campground is nice, on the river and there aren’t many trailers here today but they warned us by the weekend it would be full, but since we leave Saturday morning we get to enjoy it while its quiet. The owners are super nice, the place is clean and there are so many things for kids to do plus lots of neat cabins. Overall, we were impressed. It rained off and on all evening, so we decided to just have soup in the camper and call it a day instead of the original plan which included cooking outside.  We both did a bit of reading, watched a few of our “shows” and totally vegged. But this has been a good day and we are so thankful to have safely arrived at our next location!!!