Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my best to speak Spanish. Later, even on short vacations, I’d…
One of the most common criticisms I hear about raising kids in Telluride is the lack of culture. This always puzzles me because I’m fairly certain that if I lived in a city, I wouldn’t be taking my children to the symphony, the opera or the local Korean meat market. But I’m open to criticism…
Sometimes if feels as if powder days are like the string of Telluride boyfriends you had in your twenties. Which means for some of you, the boyfriends you have right now. And just like with those irresistible boys, with powder days, you must learn to differentiate between those with promise and those that deliver. Take…
There seems to be two names for many things in Telluride—the actual name and then what everyone calls it. Sometimes I find myself in hilarious situations as I recommend restaurants and give directions to visitors or tourists in town and on the Mountain. Turns out the local dialect does not always translate directly. Case in…
When it doesn’t snow in Telluride, the town is simply not all right. There is a lot the resilient folks in this town can shrug off, but multiple dry weeks in the middle of the winter is not one of them. January was one of those months. One friend talked of moving to Le Grave,…
I was a Lance Armstrong fan. I respected him for being a great athlete, cancer survivor and philanthropist. I read his book, “It’s Not About the Bike,” (good book, bad title). I wore my LIVESTRONG t-shirt — hot pink with yellow letters — and of course wore the yellow plastic LIVESTRONG band around my wrist….
When your 40th birthday falls eleven days before the New Year, it seems like an appropriate time to reflect. Reflect and resolve. Are you where you thought you’d be? What more do you hope for in the next year or years to come? A deluge of articles and blogs about resolutions and self-improvement are published…
The holidays are full of booby traps. There is family; there are in-laws; and there are expectations. To negotiate the holiday minefield, many families have rules. Some are verbalized, some are implied and some are simply made up on the spot out of necessity. The one thing all of these rules have in common is…
November is the time of year when people leave towns like Telluride for warmer spots such as Mexico, Arizona or California. The mountain weather is unpredictable, restaurants close and those residents without kids in the schools flee. Yet, on any given November Sunday in southwest Colorado, you can find somewhere perfect to ride your mountain…
I’ve visited Moab lots. I’ve climbed off Pot Ash Road, rafted the Daily Run, biked on Slick Rock and Poison Spider and camped with my family alongside the Colorado River. But, I’ve never experienced Moab like I did last weekend at the Sorrel River Ranch. Located about 20 miles northeast of Moab along the Colorado…