We got up very early this morning and were out the door at 7:00 a.m. We had a one hour drive from Cortez Colorado to Durango for our 1/2 day train ride to Cascade Canyon. During the winter season, the Durango Silverton train only runs a 52 mile round trip excursion. But it turned out to be just about right for us.
We had a wonderful time on the way down there. We sat the entire time in one of the outdoor observation rail cars and stood the entire two hour trip to Cascade Canyon. The views were obviously spectacular and the pictures uploaded via the slide-show to the right, simply can't do it justice.
I had wanted to go on this train for many years and was really glad we finally had the chance to do so. Having gotten up so early (5:00 is early for us these days!), combined with the rolling movement of the train on our return, I found myself dozing off a few times. But since we had a chance to see everything on our trip down, I didn't miss anything. (But I did do my usual "bobbing" of my head when I get sleepy that *Billy/Julie and Mark make fun of me doing!!) Fortunately, we had put the camera away and Mark didn't get any pictures of the bobbing this time!
To top off a wonderful day with terrific weather and sunshine, when we got back to the train station we stopped next door for an ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery. Yum!! Wow, we had never had an ice cream from this place before and boy were they terrific! I had a chocolate cone and Mark had a vanilla one. Suffice to say they probably had a gazillion calories, but it was our 'dinner' as we were too full to eat anything else once we got home.
We've really enjoyed our short stay here in Cortez, Colorado, but it's time to move on. We leave tomorrow morning for Moab, Utah. We're tentatively planning on staying a week in the area and spend a day at Arches National Park and a couple of days checking out Canyonland National Park, which is huge.
Well, that's about a wrap for us...we had a wonderful day today and hope you did as well! Until later...~
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