On the road again and surprising locations

On sunday morning we headed back on to the road again, with lot of
places to visit left on our itinerary, but not before replenishing
supplies at the world's third largest Safeway store, located in
Conifer. It was big.

Our target for the day was either Telluride or Durango, a good 400
miles down the road. We started in good weather to head towards
mountain range after another. A couple of miles before Salida we found
the first interesting location: Mt. Antero, 14000 ft high peak. But
better still was on the way...

During one notably-long straight part of the road we came to pass
Colorado's best-known little town: South Park, ample parking day or
night. The town really looked like its cartoon counterpart, down to
its mountain skyline on the background.

Another nice excursion on the road was Black Canyon, a really deep and
astonishing canyon digged to ground by a river. Although you start to
think how many canyons you can see before getting bored with them.

We had a stop at Telluride, a resort town in between mountains with
great scenery and undeveloped lots costing $3.5 million. We decided to
move on.

We finally made our final stop at Cortez, close to Mesa Verde national
park. It was quite common-looking town with not many notable features
of its own. but after 10 hours of driving it felt very nice to have a
place to rest.

Miles: 406 mi