Day 3. Sunday, June 26.
We wake up and hit the road, driving 30 miles outside of Durango to Vallecito Dam / Lake. We’ve read that it’s beautiful.
It is. The lake nestled in between the mountains. Breathtaking.
The lake is the first large body of water I’ve been this close to since I moved away from South Carolina. The first thing I think of as I stare at this beauty is all the time Addison and I spent on Lake Murray in Columbia last summer.
We were lucky enough to have wonderful, welcoming friends who invited us to their house on the lake. We spent hours swimming and boating. We even took a two-day boat trip, riding the rivers of South Carolina all the way to the ocean; it was incredible.
Vallecito Lake reminds Addison and me of how much we miss the water. But it’s hard to come by in Colorado (in South Carolina, we had tons of lakes, rivers, and beaches). We eat up the wet air and put our feet in the chilly water.
