Today we got up and decided we would change our itinerary a little. Instead of viewing the rest of the sights in Mesa Verde, which we figured would be much of the same, we decided to take a leisurely drive through Colorado's beautiful scenery. We headed out of the park and headed for Durango where we ate breakfast at McDonalds. The McDonalds was right next to the train station for the famous narrow gauge railroad that runs from Durango to Silverton. It looked like something worth doing and would love to do on another trip, however this trip we decided to do on our own by car since the train ride to Silverton and back would take most of the day.
From Durango we continued on to Silverton, Ouray, and then on into Telluride were we ate lunch in the Foradora Saloon. After lunch we continued our scenic drive back down the other side of the mountains and on into Cortez and back to Mesa Verde in time to view a few more sites that we had missed the previous day.
We were back in our room by 5:30 and dinner at 6:00 and ready for bed by 8:30. Enough for one day.
