Durango

We arrived at our hotel in Durango and we're very excited. We were looking forward to a nice hotel room overlooking the Animas river and that is what we got. It was nice having a balcony overlooking the river and the weather treated us with thunderstorms almost every afternoon which is refreshing after the boring sunny weather in LA. We didn't have time to take the all day train from Durango to Silverton which is the one that Jan's great great grandfather was a conductor on, but we did take the shorter trip that was only a couple of hours long and it went from Rockwood to Cascade Canyon. It was really a very pretty ride overlooking the river. We spent three days in Durango and I wish we had spent a lot longer. We really love the town and we really enjoyed our stay there. While we were there we did manage to go over to Mesa Verde to look at the cliff dwellings and took a tour at Cliff Palace given by a park ranger. It was very interesting.