We got up with the intention of driving out of Durango and maybe heading back to Albuquerque but then things changed, we found a part of Durango unseen yesterday – we had breakfast in this brilliant little place surrounded by men with pony tails and cowboy hats talking about their sexual being – we loved it and decided to stay. Walked along the street, took the camera to be repaired then walked past the window of a realty office, saw some land for sale out by Lake Vallecito and decided on impulse to go and have a look –beautiful drive through the mountains and forest covered in recently fallen snow – a magical place.
Lake Vallecito where my epiphany happened is about 20 miles or so north east of Durango in South West Colorado.
We returned to Durango in 1994 of the above diary entry and again nearly missed the good bit. But we turned right onto Main Street and found our British idea of the perfect cowboy town and a little more up-market than Silverton, including the marvellous little diner above. While strolling down Main Street we passed the realty agents office and, as is my predilection, I started looking at properties and dreaming. The dream started to firm up when I looked at the price of land that was for sale. Now in the UK land is almost unobtainable – small country, lots of people scenario so hence very restricted land for building on.
To cut a long story reasonably short we didn’t buy any land at that time. We went back to the UK but the idea would not go away. If you think you have found the answer to your ‘looking for perfection and finding it’ quest, the ‘you know I could be really happy here’, vision, you’re not going to give it up easily. So a couple of months later having obtained the addresses from the phone book, can’t quite remember how I got hold of the Durango phone book I guess it’s in my diary if I cared to search it out, anyway I did. I wrote – yes, wrote with a pen and paper – to about 15 realty agents in the Durango area asking if they had any land for sale. One person replied, a guy named Bob who we got to know quite well over a period of time. He said he had 3 lots of 3 acres for sale at a place called Tween Lakes. This on the phone you have to remember no internet, no emails, just phone calls and faxes, no Skype. So we asked Bob which of the three lots was the best one and trusted him not to sell us the least desirable lot so he could get rid of it.
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I love the Colorado mountains. Our parents took us (sisters and me) on a road trip when we were all under 12 and we had such a great time that to this day, over fifty years later, I remember Colorado as a magical place.