October 18 More on Durango

We have been enjoying some leisure time here. Although it’s been getting a bit cold at night we stay pretty warm, even hot in the bedroom. Had another late breakfast then took the empty propane take to be filled so when we go further north we pretty much have 2 full tanks. I found the full tank hose to be leaking when I changed it over so we also stopped at the RV place to get a new hose. It all depends on how it’s sitting if it leaks. Better safe than sorry. I made a pot of chili for tomorrow night after our train trip.

Tent outside Appaloosa Trading Company

We finally found the manager in the office so I paid our rent and picked up our mail packet from Kam with our absentee ballots in it and a bunch of replacement cards from our robbery. My wallet is pretty full now. After lunch we headed out again. We drove north up through the Animas valley to Honeywell, there they have bee hives and you can see a hive and queen bee and the processing plant. You can taste many flavors of honey, which we did and we each picked a flavor to get. Mine is amaretto and Bill’s is orange cranberry. We could see the dark skies ahead as we drove but it waited til we were in the building to rain. Then we kinda followed it back down the valley so never did actually get out in it. We stopped at a neat looking place called Appaloosa Trading Company. They are mostly a leather shop and do all kinds of leather tooling. Bill saw several belts he likes but not $88 worth. Bill dropped me off at Albertson’s so I could fill our water bottles and I snuck a Starbucks. Yum! Then we headed to the movies which are right in front of the mall. We were early so we went in Bath and Body Works to use a couple of coupons I had for free items. They also had a nice Pier 1, which is one of my favorites so I picked up some stocking stuffers there.

We were still early for the movie, RED, so we just talked and each emailed til it started. That was a good movie. Funny, a bit of violence but not so much blood and guts stuff. I still like Bruce Willis! Got home at 6:30 and made Asian Chicken Helper. That was a first. I bought a couple of boxes so if I needed a quick dinner I’d have something on hand. It was OK, but I should have cooked the rice a bit longer.

Got my shower tonight and washed my hair since we have to be at the train station at 7:30. Picked out my clothes as it might be rainy and we were told to expect 15 degrees colder at Silverton. Watch House and Castle and caught up on email. I called ATT today about the fact that Bill gets phone service but I do not. It ticks me off that I can do email and web surfing but can’t make a phone call. They really didn’t have an answer and then we got disconnected so I gave up. He said we aren’t in a service area but Bill must be good at getting a roaming signal.