Colorado Loop - anything else we should know?
Pulling a 32' TT thru Colorado 6/11-18. Route is: =on 6/11, Santa Fe to Montrose via 285, then 114, then 50 =on 6/15, Montrose to Manitou Springs via 50 and 24 =on 6/18, Manitou to Kansas or Tex...
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We did 4 corners, Mesa verde, Durango, and 550 up to Ouray about 6 years in a solo trip. Also came thru Durango and Pagosa last year on the return from Utah.
We are staying 4 days at Montrose and 4 days at Manitou and will do day trips from camp. Most of the "to do" things you have mentioned are on our list, especially at Montrose. Montrose looks a bit relaxed and natural, and more and more Manitou Springs is starting to feel commercial.
Like you, everyone else tells us we should stay longer. We have just retired from our own very intense rat races, and still trying to get into the groove of going places and doing nothing. Last year we did a 23 day (total) trip to Utah and both of us were ready to be home on the 20th day. This year the total trip length has been adjusted to continue our transition but not to make us uncomfortable. If it doesn't feel like fun, then it isn't. I'm confident we will get to mindless wandering (meant in a good way) eventually, but it isn't a transition either of us could do suddenly.
Our return from Manitou to north Alabama is not planned nor reserved (gasp!). I'm considering a return leg thru Dodge city Kansas and then picking up I-40 at OK city. Looks like the leg thru Kansas would be all secondary roads, a good thing, but doesn't appear to be much infrastructure along the way. Clinton OK looks to have a good Route 66 museum plus Red Canyon that might be worth a 2 day stop. Any ideas on this or other return legs headed east?
Thanks again for your advice.
We are staying 4 days at Montrose and 4 days at Manitou and will do day trips from camp. Most of the "to do" things you have mentioned are on our list, especially at Montrose. Montrose looks a bit relaxed and natural, and more and more Manitou Springs is starting to feel commercial.
Like you, everyone else tells us we should stay longer. We have just retired from our own very intense rat races, and still trying to get into the groove of going places and doing nothing. Last year we did a 23 day (total) trip to Utah and both of us were ready to be home on the 20th day. This year the total trip length has been adjusted to continue our transition but not to make us uncomfortable. If it doesn't feel like fun, then it isn't. I'm confident we will get to mindless wandering (meant in a good way) eventually, but it isn't a transition either of us could do suddenly.
Our return from Manitou to north Alabama is not planned nor reserved (gasp!). I'm considering a return leg thru Dodge city Kansas and then picking up I-40 at OK city. Looks like the leg thru Kansas would be all secondary roads, a good thing, but doesn't appear to be much infrastructure along the way. Clinton OK looks to have a good Route 66 museum plus Red Canyon that might be worth a 2 day stop. Any ideas on this or other return legs headed east?
Thanks again for your advice.
