Outside Uravan, the remains of the hanging flume, a canal built in the 1880s
to deliver water to the mining operations. The last five miles of the canal
were built right along the cliff face.
Western colorado
And this giant valley, it’s a collapsed salt dome. The salt eroded away,
the whole valley floor fell, surrounded by mountains.
Western colorado
On that scenic loop, we drove on the Divide Road, overlooking Unaweep
Canyon.
Ridgway
Got a lot of work done. I haven’t been this caught up in months. Some
fishing, a soak in the hot springs, some trail running/walking, a drive to
Grand Junction for business then back by the scenic route, highway 141
through rarely traveled, seldom seen far Western Colorado, a cross between
Colorado high country and Utah desert and canyons. It has been a good week.
I’m not ready to let it go, but it is time to move on. Cortez on the
horizon. A week there. I don’t think that’s going to be enough. Another
new job. Diane is on her way out from the Denver office to meet me there
and help me through it. We’ll see.
Ridgway
This motorhome is very slow to change temperatures. It takes a half hour to
heat up in the morning to 70 degrees from our sleeping temperature of 60.
It doesn’t cool off very fast at night either. We’ve still run the air
conditioner every night to get back down to sleeping temperature again, even
with the bedroom windows open. Tonight is the first night we’ve had the heater on in the evening.