MILLION DOLLAR HIGHWAY . . .

WOW! Can you say ROADTRIP? Leaving the Airstream in Durango, today's adventure lead us north on Hwy 550 (The Million Dollar Highway) 50 miles through Silverton. Silverton is where the train turned around that we rode on Saturday. We continued another 20 miles or so north to Ouray, Colorado. The drive there and back unbelievable. Leaves are changing even more now ... bright, vivid colors and the landscapes ... Spectacular! 

I found a saying along the way that I think helps Tim and I in describing what we've seen here ...

"If you should, in your imagination, put together in one small group, perhaps 12 miles square, all the heights and depths, the rugged precipices and polished faces of rock, and all the sharp pinnacles and deeply-indented crests, and twenty times the inaccessible summits that both of us have ever seen, you would not have a picture equal to this . . ." 

W. H. Holmes 

An 1876 Surveyor, U.S Geological and Geographical Survey documenting the San Juan Mnts.