Hello family, friends, and blog followers!
We've been home now for over a week, and we miss the mountains and the beautiful clear blue of the western sky already! We will be back. We've resumed our lives again...work, house and yard work. We did, however, bring some lasting things to remind us of our week on the Western Slope.
We received these carry on bags and coffee mugs on the Durango - Silverton Narrow Guage Railway. We had seats in the Cinco Animas car...the Presidential Car. Along with these complimentary items, we each also received a commemorative pin, a bottle of water, and a pastry mid morning. We also had a very nice young gal who was our hostess, and served up any kind of liquid libation you wished for. These added touches made our trip even more enjoyable. The totes came in very handy once we arrived in Silverton...in the rain.
This is a sand painting done by a local Navaho artist. It now hangs in our living room.
While at the Gateway Auto Museum, we purchased this beautiful book showcasing each one of the cars in the collection. Along with a history of each automobile, beautiful photographs of each one make you fall in love with them all over again!
This is a sand painting done by a local Navaho artist. It now hangs in our living room.While at the Gateway Auto Museum, we purchased this beautiful book showcasing each one of the cars in the collection. Along with a history of each automobile, beautiful photographs of each one make you fall in love with them all over again!
Here are two more members of our pottery collection. The vase on the left is carved from Rocky Mountain Aspen. we purchased in at Rocky Mountain National Park. The black and white double pot in Navaho, and we collected it in the gift shop in Mesa Verde.
What vacation would be complete without the souvenir T-shirt? Here are some of the shirts we collected on our travels. Susan has plans to make a t-shirt quilt after a few more years of traveling and collecting.
This is Susan's favorite shirt.
We of course also came home with quite a bit of paper ephemera, all of which will be incorporated into a scrapbook of our journey.Susan's favorite: the serene beauty of Arches National Park
Denis' favorite: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park.
Thank you to all who followed this blog. We hope you had as much fun reading it as we did writing it and choosing the pictures.
Plans are already being made for next year's vacation road trip. Until then,
Susan and Denis
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