Traveling from Farmington in New Mexico to Durango, CO was easy peasy. We pulled out around 10:30 and took US 550 straight north, arriving just before noon. We had expected to stop for a hour in Aztec to visit the Aztec ruins there, but ended up in the wrong turn lane and so just continued to Durango. We will go back sometime this week to see the ruins.
The Westerly RV campground is just outside of Durango and is quite nice if a bit small. But there are trees, roving cats (which are of significant interest to our cats) and patches of grass. Each site has a rickety picnic table and full hookups. We are kind of close to our neighbors, but they all seem friendly. Vicky’s sister and her husband (Rhonda and Lynn) arrived about an hour after we did and so we had a nice reunion. Sat outside in the very brisk air drinking adult beverages and catching up. They have been traveling through Alaska, Canada and the upper United States for the past six months and have quite a few tales to tell.
While we were out sitting, we saw the Durango narrow gauge Railroad train pass by. This is something both Vicky and I want to do at some point this week. The have both open air and typical railroad cars. The temperature here is a coolish 70 degrees at its peak (its 41 as I write this Monday morning) so a closed car may be the way to go. We are looking into taking a one-way trip to Silverton and then Lynn and Rhonda will pick us up. On Friday there is a balloon festival here and all of us intend to check that out. More to come.
Our wireless connectivity is broken here. I suspect we are in a T-Mobile dead zone despite what their coverage map says. Our cell router is connecting to AT&T – which is very weird because we have a T-Mobile data plan and a T-Mobile SIM in the router – and the speed is atrocious. The campground WiFi is typical which is to say okay for normal usage but bad for streaming TV. We do have our backup AT&T hotspot to fall back on. Vicky will need that to perform the work she has committed to doing this week.
Last evening the four of us went out to dinner at James Ranch Grill. It is a working ranch which has a market and restaurant business. The beef and much of the other food is raised on the ranch. We had hamburgers and French fries. Very good stuff. I could not finish mine – not so unusual these days – but got through most of it.
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