day 5: durango and drive to bryce

At the moment we are driving through a rainstorm right outside of Durango, we have jsut left for Bryce canyon. This morning we woke up and had breakfast with Rick, Lori and of course, cousin Fred (the beagle). We then went on a horseback ride through trails near where Rick and Lori live. everyone's horse had its qualities, elizabeth's had a tendancy to bite the horse in front of it if it got too slow, rick's liked to eat and take its time to smell the roses, and then eat them. we rode out to a cave and went spelunking with lights to the end of the cave. it was a very cool cave, in both senses of the word. We then rode back to where we started the ride and drove back to the house where we showered. Poor fred wasnt allowed to come with us on the horse ride. E-lo jsut told me that we are averaging 30.9 MPG on our trip, even after going up mountians. our trip has led us just over 2000 miles so far. after we all got cleaned up, we packed up the car and drove to downtown durango to eat lunch with Ricka and Lori. downtown we passed a picture store where one gets dressed up in western garb to have portrites made. in teh window there was a picture of Gayle and Opera all dressed up! we had mexican at francisco's. it was delicious. and now we are on our way to bryce, just entering montazuma county, we are not sure if we will have internet for a while so we wanted to rush to get a blog in. at our current mpg our range is 700 miles!! since i started to blog, the temperature has changed 30 degrees, from 54 to 84 degrees, in about 5 minutes

Will