We left Portland and the depressing, april rain we've been having.  Mom came and picked us up at work and we treated her to a cup of coava coffee on the way to the airport (great new coffee we recently discovered). 

Despite almost missing our connecting flight in Denver (as we were deboarding our Portland flight we heard an announcement that our Durango flight was going to take off 25 minutes EARLY!!) -we arrived in Durango early to clear skies. All our baggage (and bikes!) made the flight too.  Gorgeous, clear evening skies at the Durango airport.