In June this year, Trent and I took a train trip for his birthday. It was a blast!!! The train runs from Durango, Colorado to Silverton, Colorado. We took this trip with our friends Cody and Rachel. They live in Vernal, Utah and met us there to go on this adventure together! The trip was so much fun especially being surrounded by the BEAUTIFUL surroundings of Colorado and riding an old Steam Engine!!!
When we got up there we went to Mesa Verde National Park. The park is filled with the old Anasazi cave dwellings. It was so neat to see the intensity of these dwellings. We took a couple of tours that actually went into the caves. On one of the tours we had to get on our hands and knees to get through the crevices of their houses. These houses were built right on the edge of cliffs overlooking valleys! Here are a few pics:
*View from the highway driving through the park.
*A little friend we met on our way to one of the tours!
*View from the fist dwelling we toured. If you looked over the retaining wall, you would've fallen off!!!
*Waiting to start the hike/tour
*We had to walk sideways to fit through this "hallway"
*Picture of the dwelling
*Another picture
*My butt!!
*Hiking out of the tour, it was very steep!!
*The largest cave dwelling in America!
*A fire pit?!
*Inside one of the buildings
*Beginning to hike out of the second tour
The next day was the train ride! We stayed in a hotel in Cortez, Colorado and then drove up to Durango in the morning. We began the trip at 7 am and didn't get back to the train station until
6 pm. It was an all day thing but was an event of a lifetime!
*The front of the train station in Durango
*While the train was loading, we were taking pictures from our seats. Our car that we rode had no walls which made for a great day photographing the trip!!
*Our friends we went with, Cody and Rachel
*Our car we rode in, The Rio Grande!
*View from inside the car
*As Pocahontas would say, "Just around the river bend!" We were riding along a river which was about 1000 feet below us!
*Us!!
*Another little friend we made. He was sitting on the rock watching all the people while the train was stopped to fill up with water!
*Blowing off steam on the bridge of the Animas River. That was a sight to see!!
*My professional photographers picture. Man, do I love my camera!
*Our train we were on. This is when we arrived in Silverton!
*You can see just how big the train actually is!
*On our way back to Durango! What an amazing, memory making day!!!
1 comments:
That looks like a lot of fun, Ash! Cute blog! :)
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