Wrapping Up Durango’s Loose Ends – Days 3 & 4

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23546 – 1215

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Here’s the haps:

The thing we wanted to do most while we were gone was to relax and just take it easy without any drama, which we did. The 3rd day we did a mild adventure with an outfit called Durango River Trippers. It was a drive into La Plata Canyon to view some scenic waterfalls and a ghost town. Very beautiful but much more relaxing than taxing. There used to be a town of 1200 people in this valley but all that remains is this building, which was the Post Office and the chimney from a barracks building used by the miners.

We shopped downtown and bought a few trinkets and souvenirs but not much else.

Serendipity happened the next day when we discovered the Bar-D Chuckwagon.

You are served a “Cowboy Supper” of either barbecued brisket or chicken (these guys also offered steak) or both, baked potato, biscuit, spice cake, and applesauce on a metal plate. It includes coffee, lemonade, or water in a tin cup as well. One of the interesting things was that the serving line was set up going past this really nice painting.

I thought the packaging of the honey for our biscuits was pretty clever:

The painting/backdrop folded down into a stage and we got to listen to a real western music show.

The music was mostly old-timey Western Cowboy music but they did include this: