Hey, there’s another rock!

Ok for the last couple of days we have been looking at a lot of rocks and roads.  First, it was Monument Valley, which was very cool to see.  I have seen many of the rock formations in movies, and I think I appreciated it more than the rest of the crew.  We did pull over at a small Navajo vendor stand alongside the road.  It was a grandmother and her grandson sitting by a car with a table set out with items for sale on it.  The girls bought some simple bracelets and Diane got a necklace.  They were very nice people and they told us some stories about their life.  Next stop was Moab and the Arches National Park.  Arches is a neat place and we enjoyed a short hike to do some climbing and exploring.  We didn’t spend a great amount of time there because we were ready to be done for the day and settle in at our campsite.  Little did we know that we would spend all evening inside the camper due to a dessert rain and thunderstorm.  It was pretty crazy, in the dessert and it rained for about 5 hours.  The next morning we were off again to see the Four Corners.  Extremely long, straight, and lonely roads, not some place I would want to have car(RV) trouble.  Four Corners is a cool place.  We got our picture on the spot and talked to some of the Native Americans represented there for the different states.  It was a great experience.  Back in the RV and down the road for our next stop which was Mesa Verde.  We got there a little late in the day and again everyone was ready to just do their own thing for a while.  We went into the visitor center and read the displays and talked to a ranger.  She said it was a 45-minute drive out if we did not stop to see anything.  We all cringed a bit and decided to head to our next campground for swimming and relaxing.  We thought maybe we would backtrack some and get there another day.  We made our way to Durango, Colorado which is where we had camp reservations for the next two nights.  On the way there we drove through a flock of ducks had one bounced off the windshield, scaring everyone half dead.  Fortunately, the windshield did not crack.  The way our RV is set up with a bunk over the top of the cab of the truck, I was thinking there is no way that thing bounced out and over the bunk.  Sure enough, when we pulled into the campground I got out and looked and yup, we had a duck hood ornament wedged in-between the cab and the camper bunk.  We spent the first night swimming and relaxing.  The next day we spent in the town of Durango exploring the local shops and places to eat.  Tomorrow is a busy day.  Up early to jump on a 100-year-old narrow gauge steam locomotive to travel to Silverton, an old mining town.  Lunch in town then we catch a raft and white water back to Durango.  Should be a fun day.  Random pics from the last couple days.