Originally Posted by
kipibenkipod
I'm in the middle of your blog, and saw the bank robbers. Are they real people? They are looking very real, but to ask 4 odd looking persons to draw their guns and 3 are with the finger on the trigger is scary and to me imaginary. So are they real?
We'll, the bank robbers were real people, but quite harmless! There's a tourist train between the Grand Canyon and Flagstaff (I believe), and these guys put on a show and reinact a robbery.
When you have the opportunity to do a similar trip, I recommend that after leaving Arches National Park you head southeast to visit Mesa Verde National Park and then take one of the prettiest ride in Colorado (my opinion, of course) which runs from Durango to Ridgway.
We wanted to do this stretch, but at the time we thought we were behind schedule and needed to catch up. Lots of locals said that southwest Colorado has some of the prettiest nature in the state, so i'll have to go back and check it out!