{"id":199,"date":"2021-09-14T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2021-09-14T03:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:06:54","slug":"day-twenty-one-cortez-colorado-elevation-6243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Day twenty-one, Cortez, Colorado, elevation 6243\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re solidly into the second half of this trip, and we\u2019ve moved into a new state. We arrived here in Cortez around lunchtime, then went into Cortez to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We found a Safeway and picked up some groceries. We looked for a coffee shop, but the one that looked interesting closed at 2 PM. Nuts. Leila did find a quilt shop, and then found a quilt kit she likes. It will look great on the wall at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next we took a side trip; our campground\u2019s address is actually Dolores, Colorado, but is a good eight miles from there. When we got into town we first noticed Railroad Avenue, but no train tracks. Soon enough we came on an old train depot that contained a museum for the narrow gauge railroad Rio Grande Southern. Out front was one of their Galloping Geese, a depression era mashup of Pierce Arrow car and box car. It was all very cool, and a nice warmup for the train trip coming up in Durango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow\u2026we go to Mesa Verde National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are indeed lots of color in this picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Today\u2019s wildlife photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cortez is the home of this good looking coffee shop; they claim to have the \u201csecond best coffee in the southwest.\u201d We\u2019re not sure\u2026they were closed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Galloping Goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re solidly into the second half of this trip, and we\u2019ve moved into a new state. We arrived here in Cortez around lunchtime, then went into Cortez to explore. We found a Safeway and picked up some groceries. We looked for a coffee shop, but the one that looked interesting closed at 2 PM. Nuts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-park-tour-2021"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}