Just like in 2006, to drive coast to coast you have to cross the Continental Divide – this trip, somewhere in New Mexico!
GPMINI crosses the continental divide (again!)
Crossing the Continental Divide
Mesa Verde and rain
Today we drove from our hotel to Mesa Verde and back, close to 200 miles in total – another spectacular scenery day well documented over on MargaretAndIan, but here we have a few GP-related bonus highlights:
GPMINI on Mesa Verde – and look at the Mesa Verde roads, very excellent!
Our first rain while driving, since we flew out to Los Angeles almost two weeks ago; but rain can bring a rainbow!
Denver to Durango, the long way
Today we headed out from Denver to Durango, initially heading down US 285 South from Denver – a bit of a pain due to the road being single lane each way, but with passing places that enabled us to get ahead eventually of the cars that insisted on doing 40 on a 60 limit, and slowing to 20 around curves! A nice road though with great scenery …
Talking with Jim McDowell this morning, he’d said to be sure and drive through Ouray, and we realized that to do that we needed to switch routes – so we changed to US 50 and headed west over to US 550 – definitely great advice, as the road through Ouray and on to Durango is incredible!
M&I / GBMINI 