While at Eagle, Colorado, one of the first places we went
was to the welcome and visitor center.
Besides the normal place where one can buy trinkets, shirts, etc., they
had a small museum, a caboose, and a couple more small outbuildings. The man in the museum charges a dollar each
to go through the museum. It was worth
the dollar, especially when we came to an old wringer washer, powered by an
electric motor (some have gas engines), that when you moved a lever, operated
an ice cream freezer that was hanging off to the side of the contraption. This must have been quite the appliance back
in its day!
The man at the museum was chatty, but not overbearing. We talked about many things, including the
name of a bush that was growing all around the area. It had bright yellow flowers, and bloomed all
summer long, they said. No one seemed to
know the name, however. He even called
someone, but they didn’t know. He said
he would continue checking, and if we would come back, he might have the name
for us.
We checked out the other buildings, the river which was
flowing right beside the grounds, and bought a few things in the visitor
center. They were selling chocolates by
the piece in there, and I bought a caramel chocolate that had a little coarse
sea salt sprinkled on the top of it. It
was much better than I thought it would be!
We inquired of several people of good places to eat. One of them, the Dusty Boot, was in the south
part of town, which was a newer section.
We had lunch there…and were one of just a few people eating there. I had a turkey, peach, goat cheese, grilled
red pepper sandwich on sourdough. I
forget the name of the sandwich, but it was pretty good!
We took a road south
out of town, and followed it for several miles up a canyon until we came onto
the Sylvan Lake State Park and visitor center.
We stopped at the center and looked around, used the restrooms, and left
again. We never entered the park because
of the cost, but found the trip and the center to be interesting.
Going back to the visitor center in Eagle, we found the man
in the museum. He had the name of the
bush, and gave it to me. Of course, I
can’t find the name of it now that I’d like to tell you what it is. Oh well…such is the way life is sometimes. (Addendum: It's potentilla, aka cinquefoil.)
The second evening, we drove around a bit and ended up at a
pizza place just a block from the B & B.
Called “Pickups,” it was pretty much a “to go” place, although they did
have one table there. We ordered a pizza
and waited there. We also got some soda
there…Zuberfizz root beer from the Zuberfizz plant in Durango. We didn’t know of the plant in Durango or
would have toured it while we were there.
They make 8 different kinds of sodas, all of the ingredients for which
come from Colorado or Utah. They also
use sugar instead of corn sweetener.
Good stuff. You can go online and
order a 15 pack of assorted Zuberfizz products and have them shipped to
you. By the way, the pizza was
great! We went to the visitor center and
ate at a picnic table that was set up there.
Next morning, we were packed and headed east on I-70 for the
turn to Rocky Mountain National Park.
That will be in the next installment.
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