Pleasant drive today across an expansive, flat plain with mountains in the distance on both sides. 50 miles of straight highway, nicknamed the "shotgun highway".
Along the way, we stopped in at Colorado Gators, http://www.coloradogators.com/ which houses about 300 alligators. It started as a fish hatchery (tilapia fish) then it was suggested that they brought in some 'gators to clean up the fish remains. The waters of the artesian well are 87F and allow the alligators to thrive in the otherwise inhospitable Colorado climate.
Next we stopped at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
Too heavy to rise over the mountains with the winds that carry it northeastward across the flat semiarid floor of the San Luis valley, sand settles at the foot of te Sangre de Cristo range. Deposits accumulating over thousands of years have created a 330 square mile everchanging landscape. The highest dune is 750 ft., and would take about 2 hours each way to hike. Lynda & I went as far as the first dune,across beautiful, fine beach sand!
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