The famous million dollar highway, which climbed three mountain passes before ending seventy-odd miles later in Durango, was spectacular by anyone's definition, more so after a fresh winter snow.
Only two communities separated Cortez and Durango; Mancos and Hesperus, and neither were memorable.
A large group overtook them outside of Durango and they became separated in the pack as she became caught up in a blur of color and then was gone.
Durango, Colorado, once one of the wildest cities in the old west, was now the home of 12,000 citizens and one of the country's last narrow-gage railroads.
The two exchanged the Coors beer and the evening's entertainment for a brief but pleasant stroll around the streets of Durango.