Our summer journey has begun! We started out on Saturday and pulled out of the driveway at about 8:30 AM and were into the above campsight at the San Juan National Forest's Target Tree campground by 3:30 PM. We enjoyed the crisp mountain air, tall green grass and forest seclusion for our first night. Horses in the valley pastures were up to their bellies in grass, but don't tell our horses back in the desert about that!
After a good night's rest, the dogs were anxioux to explore! For Father's Day morning, they conveniently woke Chris up e-a-r-l-y! So after we convinced them that a few more zzz's, some French press java and breakfast were in order, we obliged and hiked up a trail behind the campground. We hiked about a mile and the dogs probably ran about twice that! We packed up to move into Durango to our next stop at the Alpen Rose RV Park. Within 20 minutes, Caleb had his swimsuit on and hit the pool! The dogs were bummed to not be in the forest, but they told us that they do have a good sized dog walk area here.
About 3:30 after getting set-up and trying unsuccessfully to fix my non-functioning Oxygenics showerhead, we drove back from the way we came to visit Mesa Verde National Park. It was a free entrance weekend! We drove, and drove, 15 miles to the Farview Visitor Center to purchase tickets for a cave dwelling tour. There were two tours left for the evening so we snatched up a 5:30 PM tour of Cliff Palace for a total of $9. The picture above shows Caleb in the "staging area" for the tour.
Our one hour tour led us up several ladders such as this one. You can tell by the smile on Caleb's face that tours with ladders get a thumbs up from him! It was a grand adventure and there is so much more to see at Mesa Verde... on a different journey. Chris has the day off for driving duty tomorrow... we will be riding the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad!
(Sorry for the errors in prior link... technical difficulties on the road!!)
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