I Concede

It's true....Colorado is more beautiful than UT. I spent the last two weekends driving through the San Juan mountains and was absolutely speechless! It has been a dream of mine to drive these mountain passes ever since I heard C.W. McCall's song Wolf Creek Pass (a classic you have to YouTube if you've never heard it :)) on a record I made my Dad cycle through over and over and over again while growing up.

Approaching Ouray, CO (Switzerland of America)

Look at all those Aspen just waiting to change color!

"Here comes the Silverton up from Durango, here comes the Silverton a shoveling coal. Here comes the Silverton up from the canyon, see the smoke and hear the whistle blow!"

Another classic C.W. McCall song about the narrow gauge steam locomotive that runs between Silverton and Durango which my parents rode back in their long haired days ;)

Silverton was beautiful!

I spent the night at a rest stop in Santa Fe, it was beautiful! They even had a Whole Foods :)

"Wolf Creek Pass way up on the Great Divide..."

"...and right in the middle of the whole damn show was a real nice tunnel, now wouldn't ch'ya know. The sign said clearance to the 12 foot line, but the chickens was stacked to 13 9. Well we shot that tunnel at a hundred and ten like gas through a funnel and eggs through a hen. Took that top row a chickens off slicker 'n scum off a Louisiana swamp."

"We went down and around and around and down and we run outta ground at the end of town, bashed into the side of a Feed store, in downtown Pagosa Springs."

It was an incredible trip and a dream come true! :) I can't wait to go back in the Fall