Going North to Alaska! We have started our next big Biff adventure and time to start blogging. Few tips about the blog. Any time there is highligted word indicates a link to more information about the place or thing and if there is link under a picture that will take you to more photos of the area.
We left Tijeras on Friday June 10 with
Durango as our first destination.
We were glad to leave the smoke. Albuquerque has been in the direct path from the fires burning in southeast Arizona. It has been surreal and apocalyptic. Maybe that crazy dude was right but just had the date wrong? Naw, safe to say Durango is smoke free and beautiful. Locals say a lot of folks have been escaping ABQ and heading up here. The weather has been perfect!
Our good friends Mike and Martha met us up in Durango and we spent the day taking the
narrow gauge railroad up to Silverton. Something everyone should do once in their life.
Just spectacular. Jack was also quite creative with his translation of the whistle blows. Two -here we go, three - prairie dog on the track, four - elk ahead, five - drowned kayaker on the shore. The
Animas River was swollen and swift from the snow melt off. Those kayakers had a death wish! However, I do recommend taking the bus back and not doing the train ride as a round trip. You do get little weary and the bus ride shows a different perspective of the surrounding mountains equally as beautiful.
I am also having good time riding my new bike. I took an early morning ride Sunday on a road the back side of the
Alpen Rose RV park that paralleled 550 for awhile. The air was cool and crisp and very few cars. I turned around just about the time the road started veering to the left and climbing. Ok, I'm a wuss. I did all this while Jack worked on the trailer plumbing. Yup, ran into our first snaffoo on the road. Jack is truly a "jack of all trades". So good to have a man around the camp. I did kill a wasp when I got back to do my part.
Next stop Moab.
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