Thurs 20th Oct (pm)
Best laid plans etc., when we got to the Prison Museum we found it was closed. They had unilaterally declared "winter" and decided that they were only going to open at weekends.
So we carried on East on US50 eventually arriving at La Junta where we stayed the night.
We did notice that there appear to be two Colorados - one in the mountains and the other the flat plains to the east.
Fri 21st Oct
Just outside of La Junta we visited "Bent's Old Fort", which was a key Fort and Trading Post on the Santa Fe Trail in the mid 1800s. It has been accurately reconstructed by the National Park Service, and the park rangers are dressed for the period and give demonstrations of crafts and provide guided tours. We were the first visitors to arrive that day, but we were closely followed by a school party from Colorado Springs who were on a pre-arranged visit. The Rangers were giving them an escorted tour and we tagged along with them. Very interesting.
We then continued our journey east eventually arriving here in Dodge City for the night. Along the way we stopped off at one of the historic markers where there were supposed to be signs of the Santa Fe trail - wagon wheel ruts etc. In truth the signs were barely discernible. Not surprising when you think that it was all happening 150+ years ago.
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