Onwards from Farmington

Today we drove from Farmington New Mexico to Ridgeway in Colorado by way of Durango and Silverton, from Durango we travelled along the San Juan Skyway which is one of the most scenic drives in North America and spanning elevations from 6.200ft to 11.008ft at the Red Mountain pass. This is the most beautiful of roads I have actually been along it 5 times now, when I came in July the flowers were out, every where you looked was a mass of colour the sun was shinning everything was bright and clear, it was ofcourse very hot with a very clear view over all the mountains and valleys. I then took the train to Silverton from Durango which was amazing, I took the bus back to Durango, I then came this way when playing catch up with Les and Margaret that time it was snowing, I think very hard there was lots of snow all the trees were very full, some of the Aspen trees were still golden, with every thing else so white and beautiful. Today it is a very winter picture with snow on the mountains and the hedge bottoms (as we say) the Aspen have lost their entire beautiful golden autumn (fall) colour, the ride has been just stunning. Each trip has been so beautiful and different. I had my lunch in one of Silverton’s amazing elaborate Victorian buildings now a restaurant/bar built in 1876 as a gambling hall/saloon most of which is still the original, the bar and the back bar had been rescued from a store hose in Durango where it had been painted with several coats of purple disco paint it took a whole year to restore back to it original state it is beautiful. So very beautiful.

I have missed some of the journey out but we will have email tomorrow, I will go backwardsJ