End of Summer Road Trip 2014 (part 2)

Read 'End of Summer Road Trip (part 1)' here

After the night of camping at the UFO Watchtower and saying goodbye to my little blue alien friend, it was time to work on checking another location off of my road trip bucket list (much like the rest of this trip, an impromptu decision), and make a few other detours along the way.

View of the Sand Dunes

The first stop of the day was in Blanca, CO which not-so-surprisingly is located at the base of Mount Blanca (the 4th highest mountain in Colorado). Blanca has about a 2 block 'downtown' area with a few shops and a park. After stopping for an energy drink fix at the little convenience store my friend through a zigzag of dirt roads that I couldn't navigate again if my life depended on it, the 'scenic' route to San Luis. He used to live there and wanted to show me where he had lived.

Mount Blanca

After the adventure of zigzagging through the middle of nowhere, we eventually ended up in San Luis, the oldest town in Colorado. San Luis is slightly larger than Blanca, but is still less than 1,000 people. 

Sangre De Cristo Catholic Church

San Luis, CO

I'll be honest, at this point I wasn't feeling much like exploring, I just wanted to get back on the road, the control freak part of me was also having a bit of a panic moment having to depend on someone else (who since he had lived in the area was very familiar with where we were going) and having no personal sense of reference to where I was. *note to self: get a real map, like the kind on paper, because google maps apps won't work when you have no cell phone service* So after stretching and letting the dogs out to stretch, we hopped back in the car to finish the trip to my next bucket list location.

To be continued...