Durango, CO - Arizona

We left Green River Utah this morning and headed towards Durango Colorado. Drove through some beautiful country. The town of Cortez is located about 40 minutes west of Durango. I really loved the area, but the McPhee Reservoir is dried up to almost nothing. 😕

Durango is a super cool town! John loved almost immediately. Very quaint downtown with lots of fun food & bev options. The Animas River running alongside is pretty!
Unfortunately, the landscape felt a little to ‘closed in’ for me. I like to be able to see ‘out’ and Durango is pretty much hemmed in on all sides by mountainsides. Makes me feel a bit claustrophobic.

Durango and Cortez would be a little too remote for our future travel plans. It would be over a 6 hr drive to Denver International.

We left Durango heading towards some of the mountainous regions closest to Phoenix International. Massive storm systems pounded in the distance all around us. The skies were breathtaking!!! The clouds, colors and patterns were artwork. Thankfully we skirted all of them until late evening. We only drove through 2 short monsoon cloudbursts. A little bit of white knuckling it for 10 minutes or so.

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