After a fun evening in Durango, we go up today and sent some time watching the Durango- Silverton train. We decided not to ride it to Silverton since it takes all day, but it is still fun to see it in operation.
From Durango we headed north on Rt. 550 the San Juan Skyway, aka the million Dollar Highway. The mountains were spectacular in scope and variety. We stopped in Silverton and again in Ouray where we had lunch before heading on the Montrose. Tomorrow we head East on Rt. 50 to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. We've been told by several people that we don't waant to miss it!

I took 135 photos today so some samples are below. It won't really capture the scope of these mountains, but will give you an idea of what is out here.

 Below is a hot spring along the road.

 Photos of scenery taken along the way

 Silverton- old western style town where many films were made!

 Below, continuing on to Ouray, CO

 We had lunch on the top porch- yummy food.

 We meet the nicest people along the way- this is "biker santa" who has logged nearly 1,220, 000 miles on a motorcycle'

 The owner of the still below came out of his shop. He saw us looking at our map. He also rides and had been all through West Virginia and the blue Ridge Parkway.

Tomorrow, Black Canyon.