Day 4: Durango!

Well sorry for not blogging much today - cell service of any kind was........spotty. I guess it is not very profitable to spend your money erecting cell towers in between every mesa/mountain when it will serve only half a dozen people living there! There also won't be any pictures in this post b/c the signal isn't quite strong enough to withstand an entire image upload.

Anyways, we did manage to go tell Los Alamos what we thought of TRANSIMS (and i have the pictures to prove it). Thay have this hand notebook where you get to put your opinions on what they are doing in....oh yeah! There was also a movie about TRANSIMS with Alan Alda and a nice exhibit about how they were going to save the world with it. It was....amusing :-) The drive to Los Alamos was BEAUTIFUL. So. Amazing!

After having too much fun with geiger counters and fiestaware we headed north and had lunch in the small town of Chama, NM. We also tried to see some Elk in the "Elk Viewing Area" however they must have had better things to do than model for us! Chama had a narrow gauge rail road that was pretty cute and a historic train depot.

From there, it was North across the state line and West to Durango. We had some just amazing views the whole way - and we were lucky to be in a roadster to be able to take advantage of such a giant sky! However, we did have to put the top up to avoid some hail on the way (Will thought the piles of ice in the road were "foam").

We headed up the mountain from Durango and were greeted by Rick, Lori, and Cousin Fred. After a delicous dinner of Salmon and Steak, Fred took us for a walk down to the creek. We also decided to protect our car from bears by putting it in the garage (seriously). It is so fun to see a place that you normally just see in the winter all green and bright and warm! I love this part of the country!

Tomorrow we are getting up early to go Horseback Riding and caving, then driving to Bryce Canyon via Monument Valley, 4 corners, and Arizona! We had never planned on driving through Arizona but hey, I guess we get a bonus state!