Colorado Plateau (New Mexico to Colorado)

The sculptured beauty and brilliant colors of the Colorado Plateau's sedimentary rock layers have captured the imaginations of countless geologists. This is a vast region of plateaus, mesas, and deep canyons whose walls expose rocks ranging in age from billions to just a few hundred years old.

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This is a spectacular drive through the Colorado Plateau

Snow-capped mountains ahead of me

The rock formations remind me a lot of the Badlands of South Dakota

The picture doesn't do it justice.  You can see purple, red

green, and all shades of brown in the rock formations

A horse on the side of the road eating lunch

I finally left New Mexico . . .

. . . and entered Colorado

This row of houses were on one street in Durango, Colorado.

Each house was cuter than the next.  They were in the historic district

My favorite!!

This was the historic downtown Durango area

Nice, quiet, tidy little town