Day 6 of An Adventure in the Daddy Zone With My Dad — Part 1

Two steam train depots, some snow, Earthship houses and my Dad found an investment opportunity. All in today’s post that took us from Utah to Taos, New Mexico and down the gorge of the Rio Grande River.

Dad and I kept seeing places like this on the roads we’d been traveling and calling them “investment opportunities.” So we searched for the perfect “investment opportunity” that my Dad, old “Buy ’em high, sell ’em low” Jim Eades would find to be a perfect fit with his investment outlook.

Unfortunately, the D&SNG Durango to Silverton line was closed this day. You couldn’t even get that close to the trains. Sigh.

My Dad really wanted to climb the fence surrounding the rail yard in Durango and sneak into this box car and pretend to be a hobo.

So since the rail yard was closed…

We decided to check out downtown Durango.

Dad found a bench to sit on and liked this guy.

We thought the hotel might be a good place to stay, sometime in Durango.

We saw one of the D&SNG’s steam engines returning to town on a large truck. It looked bright and shiny and clean.

Dad really liked this lady, even though she’s not real.

We drove up into the mountains east of Durango. This was a beautiful setting with the snow on the southern Rockies.

Besides beautiful scenery, we’d see some interesting junk too. We have no idea what this is.

We saw a few deer grazing in a meadow area near the highway.

It really was a beautiful drive on highway 64 out of Durango, on our way to Chamas, New Mexico.

Along the way, we crossed the Continental Divide.

There’s more from today, but I’m tired – so more tomorrow.

Here’s a link to Day 5.