Today we climbed to 10,850 feet over the San Juan Mountain Range. It seems strange to see sights that for years in Western movies have made them so familiar. The landscape could be from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. We travel through many Small American towns… Alamosa, Monte Vista, del Norte… they are just as imagined. Many quaint houses, tree-lined streets, cowboys wandering across the road. Then in the country-side we pass the red barns, grazing horses of all breeds, including the famous Appalossa.
We saw a group of elk today, antlers held high sniffing the breeze. There are plenty of deer, squirrels and chipmunks. At night we hear the coyotes howling and Pat tells me that they never go walking at night without their handgun… this is America!!
At the summit we stopped and strandled the brass plate that depicts the great divide, the centre-line through the USA. From that line all the water runs either east or west.
The photos show some of today’s scenery, as well as the mobile home of our friends Noelene and JB. It is an amazing piece of machinery… it has a full-size shower, good size double bedroom and all the things that open and close. They tow their small Suzuki car behind and then a trailer behind that!! Then there’s the saddle – I went into a store called the Big R. Inside all the cowboy supplies you can imagine. The store is frequented by the Amish community near here.
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