August 13, 2009, Thursday TO MANCOS, COLORADO
Not much to report today. Drove to Mancos, set up camp and then went to town to the Wal-Mart to get some supplies. We had some trouble with the truck on the way over, so Mike changed the fuel filter and it's good now. Yeah! To get here we had to drive through the Durango pass and it's really pretty there, but Durango is an oddly laid out town. It's very long and narrow with the freeway raised above and going right through the center. Kind of hard to explain, but it just looks weird. We're over here in Mancos 'cause we want to go see Mesa Verde, the old ruins that are built right into the cliffs on the sides of the canyons. We really like the park here even tho' they have some flies, but that's because the people with ranches on each side of us have horses. It was so fun to be out in the country like this. There is a black, mare, mule next door that is beautiful. I've never seen a mule that had such beautiful confirmation. Wow, she's really pretty. She came over to the fence and we had a good visit. Mike took Daisy for a walk on the other side of the park by some horses. Daisy wanted to get nose to nose and just then the horse, who was eating, snorted. Mike said she jumped straight up in the air and it was really funny.