September 14 - Arrival in Cortez Today is the day we are going to pick up our trailer. We left Alamosa and started driving towards Wolf Pass. We must have seen half a dozen rainbows as we drove through the San Juan Valley. The temperature continued to drop as we approached Wolf Pass, bottoming out at 8 C. It started to rain and it was quite foggy but the drive wasn't too bad. We stopped at the Farmer's Market at Pagoda Springs and got an education on the di...

Unfortunately we woke up to a very cloudy day so our planned visit to Pike's Peak wasn't going to happen. Instead we went back to Garden of the Gods to do some hiking and photography. After being in a cars, it was nice to start moving. We saw a number of mule deer and friendly rabbits as well as some fantastic stone formations. The clouds didn't break so we left around mid-morning and headed to Alamosa where we planned to visit the Great Sand Dunes National P...

We got off to an early start with a nice breakfast, heading west around 8 a.m. Cruise control is appreciated through the very flat mid-west. We saw some very unusual cloud formations this morning - miles long and cylindrical, several of them, with blue sky in between. Some of them looked like they could turn into something nasty, but nothing happened while we were driving through. The drive was pretty flat right through to the Denver area, where we started t...