On to Telluride!
Colorado Travelog #13
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 2:30pm
As enjoyable as our hike at Devil's Kitchen this morning was, it was not "it" for the day. Not by a long shot! From there we drove to Telluride, where we plan to do several hikes over the next few days, including at least one later this afternoon.
Telluride is a pleasant drive of about 2.5 hours from Grand Junction. We filled up with lunch first after our hike, choosing to eat at a Del Taco in Grand Junction. There aren't many Del Tacos in our part of California anymore, so we like to visit them when we find one while traveling. If you're not familiar with Del Taco, think of it as, "What if Taco Bell food didn't look and taste like mystery sludge?"
After lunch we stopped in the town of Delta for Dairy Queen. DQ is another restaurant there aren't (m)any of within quite a distance of home anymore. Like yesterday, Hawk got a sundae and I got a Blizzard. This time I tried the Girl Scout Thin Mint Blizzard. It was awesome.
Anyway, Telluride!
As we rolled up on Telluride we were blown away by the scenery. Tall, steep, mountains crowd in a tiny valley. Just driving toward it we could already see multiple waterfalls at the back.
We're spending the next two nights in Telluride. We actually wanted to spend 3 but couldn't find a reasonable rental even months in advance. Initially we thought about spending the whole week here. See, Telluride was the impetus for this whole trip. When we were looking up Colorado hikes for a previous trip we found a cluster of them right around Telluride.
"Let's plan a trip there!" we agreed. "We could even stay for a full week."
"But it's remote," I pointed out as I started to draft travel plans. "We'll need time to travel in and out."
"Okay, let's visit other stuff in Colorado, too," we agreed.
So that's how we planned this 8-day trip around spending 3 days in Telluride, spending a few days getting there and a few days getting back, doing lots of hikes on both sides of it.
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 2:30pm
As enjoyable as our hike at Devil's Kitchen this morning was, it was not "it" for the day. Not by a long shot! From there we drove to Telluride, where we plan to do several hikes over the next few days, including at least one later this afternoon.
Telluride is a pleasant drive of about 2.5 hours from Grand Junction. We filled up with lunch first after our hike, choosing to eat at a Del Taco in Grand Junction. There aren't many Del Tacos in our part of California anymore, so we like to visit them when we find one while traveling. If you're not familiar with Del Taco, think of it as, "What if Taco Bell food didn't look and taste like mystery sludge?"
After lunch we stopped in the town of Delta for Dairy Queen. DQ is another restaurant there aren't (m)any of within quite a distance of home anymore. Like yesterday, Hawk got a sundae and I got a Blizzard. This time I tried the Girl Scout Thin Mint Blizzard. It was awesome.
Anyway, Telluride!
As we rolled up on Telluride we were blown away by the scenery. Tall, steep, mountains crowd in a tiny valley. Just driving toward it we could already see multiple waterfalls at the back.
We're spending the next two nights in Telluride. We actually wanted to spend 3 but couldn't find a reasonable rental even months in advance. Initially we thought about spending the whole week here. See, Telluride was the impetus for this whole trip. When we were looking up Colorado hikes for a previous trip we found a cluster of them right around Telluride.
"Let's plan a trip there!" we agreed. "We could even stay for a full week."
"But it's remote," I pointed out as I started to draft travel plans. "We'll need time to travel in and out."
"Okay, let's visit other stuff in Colorado, too," we agreed.
So that's how we planned this 8-day trip around spending 3 days in Telluride, spending a few days getting there and a few days getting back, doing lots of hikes on both sides of it.