One state, 400 miles

We traveled diagonally through Colorado, through a lot of pretty mountains and small towns. It is so strange to see so much rock again. At first I feel like I should stop at each outcrop and examine it. Then I remember that I can be choosy again, skipping over the faulted and deformed sections. I visited my first fossil park--imagine all the displays about fossils and geology, all of the talks about fossils, all of the research and monitoring of fossils going on. It was pretty cool. =) The car worked hard today, too, climbing through mountain passes over 10,000 feet. And eventually as twilight fell we pulled into bustling Durango, CO.