Have blood pressure issues? Be prepared for
really high readings in the mornings due to the altitude. I take meds (my BP isn't insane, I take the lowest dose possible and do fine, but I take a reading a day just to be sure) and it was cray high each morning while I was at those higher elevations. It was fine in the afternoons and once we got home.
Mesa Verde
is pretty impressive, but you probably won't have the time to see
everything in the area.
FYI, does anyone in your family hate spiders? September is tarantula mating season, I was told when we went through the area in that month in 2012. My wife (who hates spiders more than I do) and I saw a few of them walking across the highway in the daytime. HUGE suckers, way bigger than my hand, we could see them walking with individual feet moving even as we were going at 50 MPH coming up on them. I've heard they do live at the elevations you're going to. When we got to our hotel in the area after seeing them on the road, we practically tore the hotel apart making sure there were none in our room!
philip.marshall Wrote:
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> > Chama has numerous hotel and restaurant offerings
> so I would recommend staying on that end of the
> railroad rather than Antonito, which is pretty
> desolate in comparison. >
I agree fully with this. Our tour group stayed at a hotel near Alamosa (near a Wal mart and a small movie theater, can't recall the name but it was okay) and there was nothing really out there to see or do. Chama has a great 'small town' feel and I wish we'd been able to stay there instead the night before the trip on the C&TS...
-Lee
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