We left Ouray and went north to visit Ridgeway and Montrose
Colorado. The drive on 550 is awesome but we quickly went into the lower plains
and the temperature went up.
Ridgeway is called the Gateway to the San Juan Mountain’s and
I started to notice numerous ranches. Norma loved watching the horses graze in
the fields. The downtown area was cute and offered numerous activities.
Now Montrose, Colorado was not what we would expect. It was
a large city with all the feel of home and we had to restock supplies and laundry
of course. Oh and we had cell coverage to contact family so spent most of the
day getting errands done. Wow, a Home Depot, Target! and a Starbucks!
We began venture to our next stop, the Black Canyon of the
Gunnison National Park. The area was beautiful but the campsites were very
small and very close to our neighbor. The park reminding us of the Grand Canyon. We quickly decided to keep moving to
Cimarron area.
We found an entrance turn off to the Curecanti National Recreation
Area. We stop for the night by a stream
and moved to higher elevation in the morning.
Craig drove the RV and Norma followed in the jeep because we
needed to climb to the mountain peak to cooler temperatures. We are not sure
what we are going to do when we return to 100 degree temperatures in Texas.
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