Author Archives: Clint Viebrock

2012 ELECTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

surf, Sandy

The long presidential campaign and the election are behind us. I won’t try to predict what will happen, but I know what must happen: as a nation we must get to work on climate change. The deniers have not gone away; just yesterday a writer in the New York Post had a column debunking the whole…

TIO IN FRANCE: WINE & CHEESE IN BASQUE COUNTRY

Brana vineyards to the valley

Telluride Inside… and Out has just spent three days in Provence, and we’re now in Torino, Italy. Though we’ve left Basque country behind us for now, we still have some good memories to share; in this case the wines and distillations of Brana and the cheeses of Famille Tambourin. Our host at La Deviniere, Bernard…

TELLURIDE: END OF THE RAINBOW

Rainbow, Telluride, 8-27-12

Just couldn’t help myself: I took these photographs from our bedroom fifteen minutes ago. I think this is proof positive- at the end of the rainbow you’ll find Telluride! Come and see for yourself.

USA PRO CYCLING CHALLENGE: TEJAY VAN GARDEREN TAKES STAGE 2

Press Conference

In Tuesday’s Stage 2 race from Montrose to Mt. Crested Butte, Tejay van Garderen of BMC Racing Team gained a stage win and the overall lead. From Nicole Okoneski’s Stage 2 recap: “An early break of about 30 riders wouldn’t stick, but did lead to a smaller group of 12 tearing off the front to…

ANY SATURDAY IN TELLURIDE

3 pt Buck

In my sailing days I was sometimes asked: “What do you do all day?” My questioner was asking about my time in port; there was an assumption I was “busy” when at sea. But at anchor… I could always make a case for busy-ness that had to do with housekeeping, learning about a new locale,…

TELLURIDE INSIDE & OUT: DISPATCHES FROM CHILE, 3/20/2012

Observatory, Jupiter & Venus

Yesterday Susan and I spent our second full (emphasis on “full”) day in the Ovalle area of El Norte Chile. In a sense the day was a continuation of the day before. Our first stop was at the Tabali Vineyards, which not only share a road with the Valle del Encanto, the symbols of the…

DOG’S BEST FRIEND: FUN ON THE ICE

Ted, Cabella, Mae

Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel shares a video of life on the ranch nearly every week. Regular viewers of this feature understand that the topic may be a training session, getting familiar with a particular breed of dog, watching puppies at play, etc. This week’s video, if I’m correctly reading the body language …

CROW CANYON’S MARK VARIEN TO SPEAK AT TELLURIDE MUSEUM

Mark Varian & Susan

If you haven’t visited Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, near Cortez, CO, your view of the history of our region is a bit limited. On Thursday, January 19, 2012, Dr.  Mark Varien of Crow Canyon will be speaking at the Telluride Historical Museum in a joint venture with Pinhead Institute. The lecture is at 6:00 pm….

Dog's Best Friend: Young Brittany Spaniel at Play

  Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel is always sending us some great videos of dogs training, dogs playing, dogs just being dogs. This video is just fun: Ted has gotten down in the grass to get a puppy's eye view of Jesse, a Brittany Spaniel pup, at play. The fun the puppy is…

TIO on the road: Visit to Shannon Yachts

You can get to Telluride from Bristol, RI, and vice versa. Telluride Inside… and Out has been East for nearly a month, mostly with Susan's parents in Hackensack, NJ. Among the side trips while we've been here, we were recently in Great Barrington, MA with Susan's aunt and cousin, then on to Providence, RI to…