Saturday, May 24, 2008

Day 4 Ouray It's cold! Two days ago it was in the 80's here, but now it is in the 30's - 50-s. Today we explored town - still had fun in sprite of the cold. Ouray is known as the Little Switzerland of the West, very quaint and beautiful. First stop while too cold to do anything else - a museum that has anything and everything indigenous to the history of the area. You could spend days researching and exploring - both Steve and I found it to be fascinating. After the museum, we thought it had warmed enough to visit Box Canyon - but just as we arrived, it started snowing! However, it was still beautiful! We then drove out to Telluride - the playground of the rich!!! Steve rode a tram to the top of the mountain and was able to get good pics. (I didn't ride - still feeling a little under the weather due to altitude sickness.) After getting back into Ouray, Steve still didn't have his fill of adventure, so he hiked to a falls, the Cascades. When he got back to our motel, he agreed he had enough for the day! One of the best ways to lessen the effects of altitude sickness is to drink, drink, drink. The motel where we are staying here in Ouray has natural spring water, which is very good, but we have drunk ourselves to the max! Guess we will just have to keep swigging. Tomorrow we go to Silverton, which is even higher than here. Steve is really looking forward to tomorrow - the trip on the Silverton to Durango Narrow Guage Railroad. We just found out that the Million Dollar Highway that we would taking to Durango to get the train will be closed for a the annual Iron Horse Bike Race, (a race between cyclists and the train) so we will have to detour into Telluride which adds a considerable amount of time. Just means getting up earlier! So, goodnight! Pictures coming later

1 comment:

Katie and the boys said...

Wow!!! It looks like you guys are having quite a trip!! I wish I was there and not here right now!!!!