We traveled from the Grand Canyon in Arizona to Ouray, Colorado on our fifth day out west.
On our way out we drove out of Arizona’s forests and into Arizona’s deserts where many unique rock formations pierce the flat landscape (4).
Yep, and we also fell for the trap of the Four Corners Monument, run by the Navajo Nation. It’s actually a neat place, as it highlights the culture of the Native Americans. On the other hand, there’s a five dollar admission fee and a long line to take the picture of the awkward pose that puts one in four states at once. On top of that, the actual location of the perpendicular borders of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona seems to be heavily disputed as according to official surveys, the monument is almost entirely in New Mexico while the actual location of the point is about a thousand feet into the desert towards Utah. However, even Google Maps and Apple Maps have the border in different spots so... Where is Four Corners, actually?
After driving a few hundred miles into Colorado we were greeted with colorful scenery that reminded me of the Swiss Alps. Pictures 1, 2, and 3 are of Lizard Head Overpass, a place we pulled over before driving up into the mountains to acclimate before extreme elevation change.
Coincidentally after making the comment about the similarities between the mountains and the Swiss Alps we pulled into a quaint town named Ouray, which is dubbed “The Switzerland of America”. The town of 800 is surrounded entirely by mountains and dates back to the 1800s when it was a gold mining settlement (Pictures 8 and 9).
We had reservations at a campground that turned out to be an RV Park and we couldn’t set up tents on gravel so we traveled down the road to a KOA, which treated us with showers and a laundromat.
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