Journal Entries

Having lunch on the Engineer Plateau, with our wonderful hosts Will and Janet.

Will and Janet have been inspiring @toesalad for years in their adventurous spirit and lightweight backpacking.

Hiking on Engineer Plateau.

Today, our friends Will Rietveld and Janet Reichl took us on a day hike up to Engineer Plateau in the San Juan National forest. See the map of this journal for a GPS track of our route.

Cowboy camping on our friend's porch in Durango. The fresh mountain air was wonderful but being woken up by the neighbor's rooster at 4am, not so much.

Beautiful views en-route from Colorado Springs to Durango.

Where the first week of our road trip was full of what I like - mountains (western ones, the 10,000 feet ones!), open space, and few buildings & people - the next week of our trip was very urban!

After leaving New England, we needed to get to South Carolina, so a stop in Washington DC was the half way point. None of us had ever been (I think hubby when he was a small child maybe), so it was nice to see.

We saw the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, which I thought was really cool. We visited landmarks all around that area. Pictured is the World War II Memorial, which offers a view of Washington Monument (which was closed to going inside we were disappointed to find out).

@brienne can't move her hands (and her smile) after an adrenaline trip up the rock face at Red Rock Canyon.