Day 41 Steamboat Springs CO

Steamboat Springs is an extremely smart, attractive place, has lots of new developments which are spreading along a relatively narrow valley. The old downtown is about 12 blocks by 5 & full of expensive shops. Its Colorado’s equivalent of Wyoming’s Jackson Hole, a sports tourism economy (without the period style buildings). During summer there is biking, hiking, horse riding & fishing: winter its skiing & snowmobiling – the layout allows people to just walk out their accommodation & into there sport in minutes – all very convenient.

My morning was a lazy breakfast at the Creekside Cafe chatting with a young, Mexican architect, Alberto Minjarez, he was visiting friends in the area.

As it happens, his home is just over the border from Antelope Wells – my end point.

Being a would be architect myself, I was keen to compare Mexico with UK styles & practices. His passion was with Spanish architecture, especially Gaudi. He considered his career probably lay in Canada, Mexico had little to offer & USA was out of the question due to Trump’s policies. Mexico, being a poor country, does not provide the challenging designs or energy efficient building an enthusiastic architect craves. Mexican Buildings are relatively simple & materials of construction usually simple concrete blocks. I could not resist going to the web to show our prize project, Maple Court in Newcastle.

The rest of the day was uneventful. Hopefully I worked a temporary fix for my broken Garmin mount but will need proving off road. The remainder of my day was supplies, wandered the towns shops & resting. Yesterday’s spill left me with a few aches which am hoping will magically disappear tomorrow.

Steamboat Springs- really needed an areal shot