03 Apr In Praise of Telluride
How much do you love Telluride? Can you count the ways? Rachael Oakes-Ash, blogger and founder of www.elephanttruths.com offers up “Ten Reasons You Should Pay Telluride Forward,” which she recently put up in Huff Post.
From carbon neutral micro brew festivals to the complimentary bio fuel bus, a ‘free box’, random acts of coffee kindness and no traffic lights. Why you should pay Telluride, Colorado forward.
Some mountain towns just scream community and the box canyon town of Telluride in the San Juan mountains of Colorado has got it in spades. It helps that it comes with a picture box setting with soaring peaks thrusting skyward in an amphitheatre around the heritage town with a Main Street plucked straight from a Hollywood cowboy set.
You have got to love a town that purchases 570 acres of gateway meadow known as The Valley Floor out of the hands of the San Miguel Valley Corporation and declares it open space, forever wild in perpetuity. Community one, greed nil.
You have also got to love a town with no traffic lights, none, not one.
If, like me, you’re a sucker for a farmers organic market, a local brew, a love of nature over corporations and random acts of kindness then you’ve come to the right place.
Here’s ten reasons why.
Cowboy Coffee random acts of kindness
The coffee here is good, so good we caught the gondola down each day just get a cup of joe. But what I really love in the little caravan on the main street is the Pay it Forward window where you buy someone a cup of coffee and leave the card there for them to pick up. The simple gifts in life mean a lot…
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