October 20 Last day in Durango

Happy Anniversary Carole and Herb!

At the museum

The caboose

We both slept in and better than last night. No rush to get up, only a couple things on the agenda today. I made bacon and pancakes and once we showered and dressed it was after 10. We stopped by the post office to mail our ballots and then we went down the street to the Railroad Museum. You get free entry with your train tickets. It’s housed in what was the old roundhouse. There was a fire in 1989 that totally destroyed all but 1 wall. When it was rebuilt, it was built much larger with a state of the arts shop or restoration and maintenance for the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge trains. The museum has 2 old restored engines and cabooses and tons of memorabilia from all of the narrow gauge railroads running through Colorado in the late 1800’s. The even have a huge model train and community set up. It has 5-6 trains running. Pretty impressive.

Outside the train station

Animas River

After the museum we stopped in the used book store we were in earlier in the week. Bill found one book. There were probably more but there is barely room to move between the racks and 5 people came into the mystery area and it was kinda claustrophobic so we took the one book and left. Since we have some time left on our parking meter we stopped in some shops. Bill finally found a black tooled leather belt like he wanted at a price he was willing to pay. It was in the clearance section. I found it for him. It was too long and had to be cut down. He was pretty happy to find his belt. By then we were out of meter time and it was lunch time. On the way home we stopped at the Animas River and took some photos.

After lunch Bill washed the front of the RV and I did a load of wash and wrote some postcards. Then we went to Wal-Mart and took Xena to the vet. She was having a little problem. Just before they took her in the power went off. When it was time to leave it was still off and so they didn’t charge us. That was nice! We stopped and filled up the tank and I stopped into Albertsons for some fresh fish for dinner. They had a sale on so I got some for tonight and some to freeze for another night. I was really getting hungry for some good fish. This was barramundi, which I had never heard of. The clerk said it was similar to a sea bass but better. I sprayed it with olive oil and sprinkled with lemon salt and dried dill and fried in a bit of olive oil. Yummy! Even Bill said it was good for fish. I made risotto and a simple slaw using a teriyaki marinade for the dressing. Bill really liked that.

I took my shower so Bill could drain the tanks for our speedy departure in the morning. For some reason the internet is not working tonight so hope to post tomorrow night.