Durango, Part II at Alpen Rose and Bayfield, CO

The train was fun, but I also wanted to include some of the weather pics and some pics of our rv park in Durango.  The week before Memorial Day weekend and the entire holiday weekend, CO was experiencing some high winds and lots of dust in the air.  I have a couple of short video clips, but I am not sure how to include them in this blog so you will get plain old pics.

I called this horse "Big Red"   He was a feisty guy!

First of all, there were several horses in the field next to our rv, but there was one red one who was such a character I had to include him in the blog.   Just before the wind storms would come up, he would run, and I mean run, around the field trying to round up the other horses.  He had a close friend, a gray Arabian looking horse and he was particularly protective of this horse.  It was interesting to watch them.   No one in AZ or CO was every seen actually riding any of the thousands of horses we saw.

The wind storms would kick up so much dirty in the air that we stayed inside when they were happening, kept windows closed and ac on.

Dirt...in the air...got into everything in the rv.

That's not rain in the distance...it's dirt.

In the pic below, the green carpet by our car belonged to the guy across from us.  With all the land in CO you wouldn't think they'd have to park two rv's this close.  And talk about a poor internet connection. . .  this park was the worst.  The internet never did work.  They had some little kid come out to fix it and he brought his girlfriend along...LOL  he didn't do too much work on the repeater.  Then he set up a system of passwords that was way beyond the scope of the people running the park and him too.     If one person signed on with the password...no one else in the park could sign on.  It was awful til it got to be too funny.  They would have the work campers go through the park and tape new passwords to your window each day and sometimes they would "forget" to do this.  It was a Laurel and Hardy show of wifi. The sad part was that the owner of the park said he put over $7,000 into the internet connections and they didn't work at all, nor would the company send someone back out to fix their errors.   I guess there's a lesson here.

That's dirt in the air behind the rv's.

While in Durango, we did some extra exciting things...like sitting in a diesel truck repair place getting our oil changed, tires rotated and aligned.   The place could not figure out how to do a fuel filter so that was kind of scary.  We decided to wait on the fuel and air filters til we came across a place that had more experience with motor homes. We arrived at 8:15 am and finally left at 4:30 pm.   That's a long time to sit around in a park, in the parking lot, in the car, reading, etc.  It was hot too!

Next we went a full 11 miles to Bayfield, CO just to get a place to sleep for the night.  Boy...we lucked out!  

We finally had a site with some privacy.  We had two CO mountain streams running on each side of our coach.  You could hear them at night when you were lying in bed.

I tried to catch trout here.  Notice that there are no pics of me with a huge trout.  So sad.

There were trout in this stream.  All the streams and the lake were so clear you could see the trout swim by your fly and laugh at it.

So pretty.... we saw deer too.