June 2014

[caption id="attachment_42543" align="alignright" width="300"] Bela with Brooklyn Rider[/caption] It’s easy to get a little frustrated when Bluegrass comes to town. Our mountain hamlet transforms itself overnight and becomes as traffic-packed as a city. Like a river overflowing its banks in spring, the town overflows. Trying to...

Beverley Mitchell, a writer for Inhabitat.com introduces us to a new pop-up solar power station that can deliver energy, water and internet connectivity to remote places around the world. Ecosphere Technologies’ latest product combines several of our very favorite things in one easy-to-transport package: shipping containers,...

“Our mission is to empower individuals by helping them make conscious, positive choices about their health, wellness, and beauty designed to enhance everyday living and quality of their lives overall,” Darla Loomis, spa director, Peaks Resort. 32 treatment rooms offering the latest in massage and aesthetics...

One-of-a-kind youth art camps and classes at the Ah Haa School. Summer Art Classes for ages 4 and up Although summer is the season for family vacations and adventures, it is often hard to humor every member of the tight circle. Telluride’s festivals and fourteeners represent some great...

Author, global nomad, and public speaker, Francis Tapon, has some interesting thoughts on crowdfunding your travels in this guest blog post on Gobackpacking.com: It sounds like an impossible dream: a bunch of people throw money at you so that you can travel around the world. However, it’s...

“The practice of drinking wine and then find something to say about it has always had a certain national character,” observed The New Yorker.  [caption id="attachment_42286" align="aligncenter" width="320"] Kimberly & Keith of Wine Life Radio[/caption] The universal appeal of grape is supported by the numbers. Wine sales...

Editor’s Note: It all started with a Wellness Conference that took place in March at The Peaks Resort & Spa in Mountain Village. The talks featured part-time Telluride local Dr. Alan Safdi, who offered evidence-based medical findings for healthy living in easily digestible sound bytes. The series was so...

This bat-mobile style concept car is previewed in an article in The Mind Unleashed and is powered with 10 grams of a radioactive element that will run the car for more than a lifetime. If your car was powered by thorium, you would never need to refuel it. The...