(Glenn) We traveled from Montrose, CO to Durango , CO by way of one of the most scenic roads in America. Highway 550 is known as the Million Dollar Highway and we rode it years ago on the motorcycle but the color changes made it seem better than before. When we reached the beginning of the road in Ouray,CO about 9:30, we found out that the road was only open from 12:00-1:00 due to road construction. We arrived early and rather than take a 3 hour detour, we parked the bike and got out our chairs to read some books and watched traffic backup behind our bike for the next two hours. We saw some of the road was falling into the canyon and they were blasting into the mountain to create another lane in some areas that were only one lane with a 1000 drop off on its side. At noon we continued to Silverton, CO to have lunch at the Handlebars Saloon that we visited years ago. We finally arrived in Durango, CO where we explored downtown for a couple of hours. We plan to spend two nights here and visit Mesa Verda National Park tomorrow.
(Cathy) We did not get any reading done sitting in our chairs at the roadblock. A gentleman and his wife came up and the man started a conversation with Glenn that lasted about the entire time. Colorado is really a beautiful state. We saw it with snow and again with the color changes. Totally different. This is definitely a return-to state.
And Glenn did really good with this very nice hotel.