I had already scouted out breakfast places and the only other place open was a coffee place - YES, my type of place!!! And they made breakfast burritos so I figured it would be the perfect place to go! It was a balmy 27 degrees again when we got up - and we did sleep in a little bit! We headed down the street to the coffee place and it was cute as can be!
We had already decided to do trails we hadn't done before and would wait till next year to do the Alpine Loop - although parts of where we went were part of the Loop!
Here's a picture of our ride!
This isn't a good picture because of the sun but it's a house that is actually being built on top of this mountain!! Yes, we went up there - yes, it was twisty and narrow and a cliff on one side - no, I would NEVER want to live up that high!! Glenn was pretty intrigued with it once we finally got up there - you couldn't see great because it was over a hill that was private property but it was unique!
We took a wrong trail - I told Glenn to turn right at this one spot but he insisted that we needed to go up higher to get down the other side - NOT!! We went up and up and up and I finally said ENOUGH - turn around and go back down - we met some other riders and they told us the road went nowhere - just to a dead end so I'm glad we turned around when we did!!
Once we were back in town, we had to wash the side by side and fill it with gas - there's only a 1 bay car wash in town - luckily it was open but you had to have tokens to use it - of course the machine for the tokens wouldn't work - nothing surprised me any more - so the sign said to go over to the motel and get them. I ran over there (which happened to be the gas station too so at least we knew where to fill up at) and soon we had it washed and turned back in!
We decided to take the southern route home - no way were we going to hit those detour times again!! The road from Silverton to Durango is one of the most beautiful roads I've been on - there were loads of aspens but it's really hard to stop when you're pulling something!! I did snap this picture right outside of town!
And I did forget to mention that once we got back down the trail that led up to that house, we met 2 huge wide trucks that were hauling building materials up to that house - I can't imagine what they did when they met someone - there is no way 2 vehicles could meet side by side, let alone a huge truck - I'm just glad we were already down!!!!
The colors were pretty everywhere we went!
After showers and a quick nap for Glenn, we walked to Handlebars to eat dinner - it's a crowded, busy restaurant and bar but definitely has the best food in town!! We didn't have to wait long for a table but unfortunately it was right by the bar where an extremely loud mouthed guy was talking!! Oh well - we enjoyed our food and looking around at all the stuffed heads and mounts!! I noticed they had peach cobbler for dessert with ice cream - I asked for it to go with whip cream instead of ice cream but the guy talked us into eating it there! I was surprised when it came out in its' own crock (it was baked in it) and there was ice cream AND whipped cream on it - gosh it was good!
Once the sun came up I snapped a picture of the hillside from our window where we stayed!
We stopped in Durango for breakfast - delicious omelettes with special coffee served right there also so that was a win!! And after you pay, they bring you 2 donuts in a sack for the road!! Super nice place!
It was a long drive home but the leaves were all changing - it's amazing what a couple of days can do!
2 comments:
What beautiful colors - we are just starting to get some color!
So glad the leaves were changing for this trip! Amazing colors!
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