Sunday, October 01, 2006

Telluride, CO


The fall foliage here in Colarado is spectacular. For folks from Florida, seeing golden Aspens and firey red maple trees is a real treat. When we arrived at the Dolores RV Park, Dolores, CO, the trees were green. Now we are walking through leaves... Yesterday with Jerry and Kathy we drove to Telluride. Although it is only 60 miles from Dolores, our trip was slow because of all the "photo opportunity" stops along the road. Every mile was more beautiful.
Golden aspens were glistening all along the highway.
We finally made it to Telluride, elev 8750 and toured the town and had a delicious lunch.
Instead of driving to this beautiful ski town, we took the free Gondola. In fact, the golden aspens were so stunning that we had to take a second ride to take more photos! Thank goodness for digital photography.

Jerry takes one more photo before we depart...

Mesa Verde National Park, CO

Our next stop was Mesa Verde National Park, which was created to preserve the dwelling sites of Ancestral Puebloans, both atop the mesa and in large alcoves in the walls of the deep sandstone canyons. The park includes more than 4,500 archeological sites. We had a wonderful day touring the cliff dwellings with our good friends, Jerry and Kathy Millspaugh from Albuquerque, NM.

Square Tower House Cliff Dwelling

Square Tower House

Norm and Jerry and Kathy, enjoying a ranger lecture at Spruce Tree House, the third largest cliff dweling in the park.

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde's largest Cliff Dwelling.