2016 Summer Road Trip: UT, CO, NM: Day 18: Wed. 6/29: Durango and Bayfield Part II

Day 18: Wed., 6/29: Durango, Co and Bayfield, CO

We got up and cooked breakfast about 10 feet from the beautiful pond and river right behind our RV. We went fishing on the stocked pond and saw a buck and doe (deer) right across the pond. Sam caught 2 fish, including another big one. After breakfast and fishing, we took the bikes again to Durango to ride the paved trail along the Animas River again. We went again to the BMX track and had fun trying to jump and do berms and bumps about 7 times each. We talked to several people at the track this time as well as the time before who were all friendly, helpful and down-to-earth. Such nice people in Colorado! Then we rode north to watch the kayakers and rafters again in the rapids. It’s so fun to watch them working the rapids on the river. After that, we went to Walmart to stock up for the 4^th of July weekend—since we’ll be up in the mountains on a lake in the boonies. It started hailing so hard and it was so loud on the roof of Walmart that we stopped shopping and went outside to be awed by dime sized hail pouring down hard. Sarah, Ryan and I ran out into the hail in the parking lot to be pounded by the hail. It hurt!!! We had so much fun playing in it, being pelted by it, and seeing how hard it was coming down for about 30 minutes. Incredible! We then returned to our RV park and fished again before the rain came. Sarah caught a fish! Then rain then came and so we ate dinner and watched Monty Python’s The Holy Grail. The kids loved the movie, as did Andrea (sort of ??? J ). Unfortunately, the forecast shows bad weather (severe lightening storms) coming through the next 3+ days as we’re at Vallecito Reservoir in the mountains east of Durango.