Road Trip 2013 - Yakima WA, Boise ID, Provo UT, Durango CO, Santa Fe NM, Flagstaff AZ, Palm Springs CA, Paso Robles CA, Rohnert Park CA, Eureka CA, Bandon OR, Cannon Beach OR

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Day 7 - Silverton, Eureka Mine

The aspens whiz by as we head into the mountains and our destination town of historic Silverton

Aspens - affected by a large scale forest fire.

Emma regards the snowline with some suspicion. The Whiskey Jacks live up there.

This is probably the high-altitude mark of this roadtrip. Not an all-time high, but close. Very close.

The Durango-Silverton steamer prepares to leave Silverton. It's more than 3 hours back to Durango, mostly downhill.

They'd better have an espresso machine in there.

Repositioning the funky rail cars - time to return the folks out on their day trip - we get to linger longer.

Relics from another era - scattered at random at the Eureka mine.

The remains of the Eureka Mine.

The road back from Eureka.

aaahhh - coffee at Avalanche in Silverton - takes the chill away.

Avalanche Coffee. They also do all their own baking, make awesome pizza and are a nano-brewery. No kidding.

The shady lady is out.

A wind sculpture mingles with tree branches along the Durango riverfront.

"Cypress" - an amazing experience. Greek-Southwest fusion. Sounds weird, but our 6 course tasting menu was perfect.

 


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