After leaving Telluride, I wandered south toward my favorite town in Colorado: Durango. Just before my turn to go east, instead of meandering through another great little town - Dolores - I stopped to check out my map.
Lo and behold, Kat drives up next to me at my oh-so-random pit stop and we get out to greet one another. She offers that I come back to her house in Dolores for a while to see where she lives and meet her pup.
I was so grateful to run into Kat again, as I wasn't sure where I would go or what I would do with the rest of my day. Here are some photos of her beautiful house in the hills of Dolores.
She collects gnomes and scatters them around her 5 acre property...
More gnomage:
This is her pup Tanzee and gnome number 8:
Yucca and lizards!
Cacti!
I knew they'd be friends - - - >
--- > best friends
Tanzee and Kat overlooking the valley
Dolores is a great town; Kat and Tanzee are friends for life. See you guys in Taos!
... the night, however, did not end in Dolores. I scooted down to Durango to catch a flick at the Abbey Theatre. With a Ska brew and buttered popcorn in hand, I made my way into the balcony seating (which was a nice comfy leather couch) and watched My Blueberry Nights with Natalie Portman, Nora Jones and Jude Law.
Decisions. I made it to the film just in time to miss the important first ten minutes. I also missed the opportunity of light and open internet cafes to find a good campsite. I drove as far toward Pagosa as I could and ended up sleeping next to a picnic table in a nice park by the river. A dog woke me up at 6:30 am with a sniff of my forehead.
Bum? No, just easy to please.
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