After Mesa Verde, we drove to Durango to sleep in a hotel. The next day we drove a long way to Colorado Springs, about an hour away from Denver.
An hour away from Durango, we stopped at Pagosa Springs and spent a wonderful morning in the hot spring’s 23 hot tubs. Morgane loved it and said she would remember it forever. We all loved it. Some of the tubs had little waterfalls. They all had different temperatures. There was a pond and we had to walk over a bridge to get to one hot tub and there were little goldfish swimming everywhere.
We drove through a mountain pass that took us up to around 11,000 feet.
After that, we looked at our route and opted to drive in the south and avoid some of the higher passes. For awhile, it was all mountains, all around us.
We saw deer that looked mostly white. I thought they were antelope, but we saw another and it was a deer with a whiter belly.
The towns we drove through had either a cowboy wild west look to them or a New Mexican – Spanish feel.
