8 May 2018
Hooray for Ouray!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Today was a short day for travel and a much needed day of rest.
I decided to go see Ouray. Jim and Holley (especially Jim) has been raving about Ouray. If I didn’t know better, I would say this is where these two are going to move next.
It’s a town of around 1000 people and has an old fashioned Main Street. With the era of suburbia and strip malls, that’s a quaint relic of days gone by and one that I miss.
I remember walking down the Main Street of Morton, Mississippi and being able to pretty much find anything I needed: pharmacy, five & dime, clothing stores, restaurants, movie theater, even the hospital was on Main Street.
Ouray is a lot like that. One thing I really enjoyed seeing is Ouray protected its old buildings. A hotel may not be a hotel any longer but the original from 1890’s is still standing on Main Street. As often as not, the original purpose of the building is still in effect.
Like most small towns, the Main Street is not long. I walked the length of it and back (bad ankle notwithstanding) and didn’t spend more than 1/2 hour window shopping. I got there a little after 9 am and absolutely nothing was open. Most of the stores open at 11 am and that’s in tourist season which it is decidedly not.
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I did look at some real estate offerings and most of the prices were in the $250K-450K price range. There were some bargains but they would require a lot of work. It seems not only the Wilson’s like Ouray.
I was tempted to get in their hot springs (at the entrance to town) but even that looked like it would not open until 11 or later.
I head out tomorrow for Pagosa Springs. I could actually have driven to Great Sand Dunes National Park in one day and Pagosa Springs takes me further south, but I went through the town two years ago on my last cross country trip and fell in love with the place. For Jim and Holley, it’s Ouray. For me, it’s Pagosa Springs. I’ll be staying one night at Elk Trace Bed & Breakfast just outside of Pagosa Springs but I intend to do some window shopping while in town. I also want to tour Chimney Rock (every place out here has a chimney rock) which is run by a local tribe. They allow only two tours a day to the sacred place.
Pagosa Springs reminds me of a hip college town that’s located in the mountains. I’ll be sure to take some photos of the place so you can fall in love with it also.
After returning to Montrose, I toured the Montrose Botanical Gardens – a work in progress. They have a very neat area behind the Civic Center that has a great deal of room for expansion. I was most interested in seeing their native plants and they had an entire section of the garden dedicated to them.
I then called the local jeep dealer, Flowers, and asked if they could dispose of about a pint of diesel fuel. After the work on the jeep brought on by my stupidity, the water in fuel light came on and I drained it. I need to get rid of the water and diesel fuel in the container into which I drained it.
The local jeep dealer said sure, bring it over. I did, they disposed of it, did not charge me, and were super nice. I particularly enjoyed a sign in the parts department that advertised “free blinker fluid” and commented on it.
From there, it was wash-the-jeep time. There are two hand held spray car washes next to each other in Montrose. I pulled into the first one and for the third time this trip debugged the jeep. Love bugs are terrible in Florida but these are not love bugs. I think I have found several new insect species on the grill of the jeep. I intend to name one Glueus maximus. Even the power spray is not enough to remove them and I have to use a scrubbing pad.
I suspect I’ll have to debug several more times on the trip. Now for a nap.
