TIO on the Road: How I Spent My Spring Vacation

23 Apr TIO on the Road: How I Spent My Spring Vacation

Like a lot of Telluridians, we tend to travel during the Spring and Fall off-seasons. Winter and Summer most of us are pretty busy either enjoying what our area has to offer, helping others enjoy what we have to offer, or both. So, in the off-seasons we visit family and friends who live elsewhere, or travel to some other exotic locale. For us, that’s most years.

This Spring has been a bit different. We left Telluride before the lifts even closed. The reason? We had just sold our second home in Denver. Mind you, we love Denver, and our place in the Ballpark District is a jewel. But life in Telluride is just too rich. We weren’t using that beautiful home, even though we loved being there the few days a year we actually made the trip down from our mountain.

Now we had to figure out how to deal with the furniture and appointments from a second home. We decided that some of the pieces would replace items in our Telluride place, and friends quickly offered to find a home for some other pieces. Now, how to get everything where it needed to be…

Result? Lots of packing and lifting (with the help of professionals, and friends who perhaps overlooked the fact that this could be work), and lots of driving.

How much driving, you ask? Well, first there was the drive down to Denver; then a round trip from Denver to Telluride by truck, with intermediate stops. We had two days to finalize moving out of our townhome, then the bittersweet moment of closing, turning over the keys to the new owners, and leaving in a smaller truck in Denver rush hour traffic, heading to New York on the final leg of this monumental journey. Three days and a few hours had us driving down Broadway in Monday morning Manhattan rush hour to drop this last load at the apartment of a friend on the Upper West Side of NYC.

Cloudy Morning, Central Park

With help from the supervisory staff of the building, the truck was unloaded in less than a half hour, and I delivered it to the rental place in midtown. Whew!

Now it was time for 1 1/2 weeks of museums, galleries, theatre, walks in Central Park, dinners with friends, Easter weekend with Telluride friends in East Hampton.

Beach, East Hampton

This morning we leave for a quick visit to Susan’s aunt in western Massachusetts, followed by some time in Pittsburgh with our daughter and family, then it’s home to Telluride to clean up the disaster area which is our garage, re-hang art, and enjoy the last of the Telluride off-season before the onslaught of a busy Telluride summer. Whew indeed!