July 18, 2019 - Falling in love with Colorado

Today was a travel day!   We left Durango at 11am and started our short drive to South Fork.  We only drove for 2 hours today and staying one night in the small town of South Fork,  just taking it easy and breaking the five hour trip to WestCliffe up into two easy travel days.

We traveled along Highway 160 and we went through some gorgeous land.   We both remarked multiple times how much we loved this rock, forested, river laden land.  Pegosa Springs was the cutest little town.  South Fork is a bit sleepier but we enjoyed a fabulous BBQ place, took an post-travel drive up to a local reservoir and found some gorgeous wild flowers (they are everywhere!) to bring home and brighten my table.

These are LUPINE , I believe, and there are fields and fields of them everywhere along the roads.  I had to pick a posy.

Colorado is impressive.  We can't wait to see more.