4 Corners sits between the Ute and Navajo indian reservations, so booths full of Indian wares ring the site. You can only get there by driving through a tiny chunk of New Mexico. Here's the back of our caravan, some parked in Utah, others in Colorado!
Here's the entrance to 4 Corners, with out caravan in front of the New Mexico sign, which means that nearby must be.....
...the Arizona sign! Followed of course by....
...you guessed it, the Colorado sign! This is on the Utah border, which took about thirty miles of driving to get to. So, we turned around and there it was....
...the Utah border! This was a fun side trip that night, even if the country where 4 Corners sits is desolate like the face of the moon.
An amazing sunset on the way back to Cortez from 4 Corners. Wow. The next day I went back to see Ship Rock, about 40 miles inside NM, which fascinated me during the drive.
Another view of Ship Rock. Guess what? It's a big rock, shaped like a ship, in the middle of the Navajo Nation. I know, boring, but I just HAD to find out what that thing on the horizon was!
Mesa Verde is where the cliff dwellers lived, but I was horribly disappointed with the whole thing. Ten bucks to get in, but you couldn't see any of the structures without another paid ticket, all of which were sold out by 11AM!
Parking was atrocious, the place was crawling with RVs full of kids, and this was as close as you were allowed to get to most of the structures. Hmph. I was not amused.
However, any excuse to drive the 9K and see cool stuff is okay on my book. I took off from here and made a detour through New Mexico, just to say I had, then met back up with the party in Durango.
My campground in Durango, which just happened to be cut in half by the Durango-Silverton railroad. A lot of us took that train ride, but I preferred to drive.
Yes, the train ran right through the middle of the camp! The first run is at 7AM, which needless to say wakes everyone up no matter what!
A really cool picture of two unique modes of transportation.
Durango is a really cool city, my favorite on the trip. One of the neatest things to see there is a private car museum, full of Packards and other old makes. No Saabs, but maybe one day...
Inside the Durango Car Museum. The brown car on the left is an air-cooled 12-cyl. Franklin (?), with a beautiful Pierce-Awwor parked behind it. All these cars are for sale and are driven often!