For you classic car lovers, I want you to know that it is still true that there is still caches of old cars rusting away in farmers fields. I have seen it first hand in Cortez, Co.
After Mesa Verde kicked our butts we decided to forgo showers and real food and push on to the farm. We almost made it too, we wound up camping at Devils Canyon camp ground in Manti-La Sal National Forest which it turns out is pretty darn close to the farm.
Today we made it to the farm, even after Google tried to get us stuck and/or killed. GPS showed no such address when we tried to use it to get to the farm and Cell reception was spotty but it got us a route to the address. The route we attempted lead us on a three hour off road expedition that started as a plausible gravel road took us over seriously treacherous rocks and ended when there was no longer a path of any kind to follow. We went back to town had "the most amazing (strawberry) milk shake ever!" at the Shake Shack, and asked Daniel at the gas station how to get to the farm, it was so easy after that.
On the way to the farm we saw some modern cliff houses . Nobody was at the farm when we got here, so we sat on the porch. We spotted Mary the ranch hand after around an hour and she let us decide if we wanted to work or go take a hike, we worked planting Pinot grape vines.
The Montezuma Canyon Ranch is beautiful and we are being treated to an awesome lightning and thunderstorm. The Ranch owner is still not home (we showed up a day early) but we are OK, He left the door unlocked (for us?). No cell service and manual labor for the next two weeks should do us some good.
(pictures to come....)
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