Telluride
Thursday, June 27, 2002
After four nights of camping, we decided that a room with a hot shower was in order. Fortunately, rooms were plentiful on Thursday night. Everything was booked for Friday and Saturday nights because of the Telluride Wine Festival. The previous weekend was the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Still on the books for this summer are the Jazz Festival, Blues Festival, Beer Festival, Summer Festival, Labor Day Festival, Rocky Mountain Festival and the Festival Festival. Well, maybe not all those but some of them. I guess you have to do something when there is no snow on the slopes.
Jack & Lorri in front of the Victorian Inn where we spent Thursday night.
Telluride started as a mining town (surprise!) but now has turned into an expensive real estate town because lots of stars and otherwise famous people have discovered it and are building 8,000 square foot cabin getaways amongst the pines and the aspens. There seem to be a lot of good restaurants and nice shops in town. We had dinner at a place called "Jack's". I sort of liked the name.
On the left are a couple shots of Main Street and on the right if you look closely you can see a dog sitting on the porch roof. This house was across the street from the Victorian Inn.
Looking down from the free gondola the connects the town of Telluride with Mountain Village.
Are those aspens on the left? Telluride from a trail at the top of the first leg of the gondola ride to Mountain Village
Main Street with Wine Festival sign.
Jack at Jack's.
The next morning we got up and worked out for the first time in more than a week. I jogged down a beautiful trail that paralleled a creek for a couple miles and than crossed over the road and came back into town on the bike path parallel to the main drag. After a week layoff I sure felt the altitude, 9500 feet. In Telluride they even sell tee-shirts that say BIOTA which translates to "blame it on the altitude".
