Pagosa for Two

Bike ride to the Middle Fork trailhead today.

This would be a GREAT camping spot! 

A beautiful meadow or shady soft woodsy spots to choose from, 

with a river just a few yards away. Or a great picnic spot.

(I think we might decide to always go on a picnic for lunch, just to explore new spots.)

 

After our ride we drove to Williams Reservoir for exploring and a picnic. 

I thought it would be fun to circumnavigate the lake... just in case there was a rope swing or something exciting on the other side we were missing. There wasn't.

And I wouldn't recommend circling it... splashing through the river wasn't bad, we'd just done the Spartan after all. But walking through two herds of cows in a swampy bog trying to stay as far from the bull as possible we decided in the future we'll picnic on the other side then turn back the way we came! 

Lots of kayakers, paddle boarders and fisher people out today. 

It cooled off, more like typical cooler Pagosa weather. 

We went up to the new ranch in the evening after the workmen had gone home and walked around measuring, thinking and planning. 

I finished reading a book Lizzie recommended as her favorite from childhood, 
Miracles on Maple Hill. It was the perfect book to read at Pagosa because it was all about moving to a small house in the hills where Marly's mom had spent summers and now their family was visiting hoping to heal her dad from his war PTSD. Marly and her brother spend their days exploring the woods and farms, learning about the country animals, flowers and life from their kind neighbors.

 I'm out of books, but luckily Dan just finished his, so we're swapping. He's going to read 

News of the World and I'll read The Bomber Mafia.