Dinner & AirBnB in Ridgway
Colorado Travelog #17
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 9pm
Whew. It has been a long day! We started the morning in Grand Junction, hiked Devil's Kitchen in Colorado National Monument, then drove to Telluride. In Telluride we 4x4'ed/hiked Bridalveil and Ingram Falls, and hiked Cornet Falls. By the time we finished all that it was going on 7pm, we were still 45 minutes away from Ridgway, where we've got an AirBnB for the next 2 nights, and we hadn't had dinner yet. Oh, and Ridgeway is a small town where few things are open late normally, and it's the 4th of July so schedules are different.
As I drove from Telluride back to Ridgway, around the flank of Mt. Snuffleupagus, Hawk checked on her phone for what eats would be open. One option after another was closed. Not that there were a lot of options to start with, as Ridgway is a small town. We ended up at a pizzeria that was closing minutes after we arrived. The staff told us we were welcome to dine outside. Oh, no, make us eat on the patio in beautiful weather! (Plus with masking at zero in western Colorado we wanted to avoid dining indoors wherever possible.)
After dinner it was time to find our AirBnB rental.
"Walk to downtown!" the listing had boasted. Yeah, the place- a loft about a nearly abandoned store- was a block and a half off the main strip. That main strip, BTW, was only a handful of blocks long.
We took advantage of the walkable town to walk to the town's one grocery store to buy some drinks and snacks.
Inside, the condo is spacious. The main floor, a level above the store, has an open living room/dining/kitchen combination with a bathroom.
Upstairs, in the loft, is a king bed (off to the right in the photo above) and a reading area. Given that it's only a 2-person condo (because there's only the one bed) there's a lot of room to spread out here.
All in all, it's a nice place. If only it weren't 45 minutes away from where we thought it was.
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 9pm
Whew. It has been a long day! We started the morning in Grand Junction, hiked Devil's Kitchen in Colorado National Monument, then drove to Telluride. In Telluride we 4x4'ed/hiked Bridalveil and Ingram Falls, and hiked Cornet Falls. By the time we finished all that it was going on 7pm, we were still 45 minutes away from Ridgway, where we've got an AirBnB for the next 2 nights, and we hadn't had dinner yet. Oh, and Ridgeway is a small town where few things are open late normally, and it's the 4th of July so schedules are different.
As I drove from Telluride back to Ridgway, around the flank of Mt. Snuffleupagus, Hawk checked on her phone for what eats would be open. One option after another was closed. Not that there were a lot of options to start with, as Ridgway is a small town. We ended up at a pizzeria that was closing minutes after we arrived. The staff told us we were welcome to dine outside. Oh, no, make us eat on the patio in beautiful weather! (Plus with masking at zero in western Colorado we wanted to avoid dining indoors wherever possible.)
After dinner it was time to find our AirBnB rental.
"Walk to downtown!" the listing had boasted. Yeah, the place- a loft about a nearly abandoned store- was a block and a half off the main strip. That main strip, BTW, was only a handful of blocks long.
We took advantage of the walkable town to walk to the town's one grocery store to buy some drinks and snacks.
Inside, the condo is spacious. The main floor, a level above the store, has an open living room/dining/kitchen combination with a bathroom.
Upstairs, in the loft, is a king bed (off to the right in the photo above) and a reading area. Given that it's only a 2-person condo (because there's only the one bed) there's a lot of room to spread out here.
All in all, it's a nice place. If only it weren't 45 minutes away from where we thought it was.