The Million Dollar Highway is another Scenic Bi-Way must. The most scenic part is between Ouray and Silverton but we didn't drive all the way to Silverton and Durango because we'll be there next week. We turned around at the memorial they have for road workers and snow plow drivers that have lost their lives maintaining this highway. I am so glad we didn't drive the motorhome over this pass. I would have been freaking out with my birds eye view over the edge. There were many areas where the white line disappeared and it was a long way down.
On to Telluride! What a beautiful, expensive town with Victorian houses. In many of these towns we've been visiting, even new construction looks period authentic
Next to Bridal Veil Falls is this amazing structure with it's own waterfall
These brightly colored homes reminded me of the ones in San Francisco
Telluride has a free gondola you can take to the top of the mountain and transfer to another gondola to go into Mountain Village.
What great views. It was a bit cool so we wore jackets for the first time in months.
Huge homes and lodges. I wanted to just lay around in one of those hammocks
The red umbrellas are where we stopped by a couple of beers
Mine was the Left Hand Milk Stout. The alcohol content caused a bit of a headache for me at this ski resort elevation. It was so delicous - like dessert!
From our beer goggles vantage point at Mountain Village we watched people playing. The lifts took mountain bikers up the slopes to ride down. This huge playpen looking thing had spheres for rolling around on top of the water and a challenge course.
Our final day we went on a loop drive to Gateway, Colorado. Bonnie picked out her car at the Auto Museum
This one had an old time movie star quality about it
We had an amazing lunch
The final part of the loop took us along another canyon to the site of an abandoned mining flume
You can see it hanging along the side of the canyon wall and the closeup shows the detail.
Thanks Dan and Bonnie for an amazing time! See you in December at The Den.
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