Tomorrow is a travel day, but today was a stay close to the RV day. We spent the morning in Durango; we did a little shopping, had a cup of coffee, then took a tour of the narrow gauge railroad’s shops and yards.

The tour made me nostalgic for the old LP&N shops…the oily dirt around the property, the greasy pits under the locomotives (we used to run in and out of those…heaven only knows just how greasy our shoes must have been), and the tour guide’s comment that we should use the restroom in the depot because those in the shops are not the tidiest in the world. It made me think about the aromas of the shop, and of the little things like the sink in the shop…with its hands free mechanism.

We did some grocery shopping. There are only two stops left in the trip, and grocery stores are rumored to be hard to find in the desert. Next grocery stop will be on the way home.

The group had a spaghetti dinner tonight, then our driver’s meeting. We took a group picture tonight too; one couple of our group leaves tomorrow, as they need to get to Wisconsin for a family member’s funeral.

Next stop: Monument Valley, Utah. On the way we’ll make a stop at Four Corners and we’ll see just how many states we can actually step into at the same time.