[caption id="attachment_35224" align="alignright" width="300"] Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon[/caption] Editor's note: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is located in southwestern Colorado, a rewarding day trip from Telluride of a little over two hours each way. For over 28 years, the on-campus staff has made its business to study and...
What does Telluride have in common with Haines, Alaska; Spring Green, Wisconsin; Berea, Kentucky; Galena, Illinois and Little Compton, Rhode Island? Trolling the Internet, I came upon this article in the Huffington Post about "America's Best Small Towns." The 2012 Census confirmed what most Americans already...
The trumpet sounded at a special media luncheon held in the summer of 2012, when it was announced that Hotel Madeline Telluride, Mountain Village, was now officially part of the The Leading Hotels of the World group. What does the designation really mean? The luxury hotel collection...
[caption id="attachment_33886" align="alignright" width="150"] View from the Lodge proch[/caption] Enchanting rumors have long surrounded Dunton Hot Springs, the restored ghost town-turned-luxury resort. As of June, 2013, there is something substantive and new to talk about. On a recent summer day, we set out for lunch at Cresto...
Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my...
One of the most common criticisms I hear about raising kids in Telluride is the lack of culture. This always puzzles me because I’m fairly certain that if I lived in a city, I wouldn’t be taking my children to the symphony, the opera or...
[caption id="attachment_27084" align="alignright" width="225"] The sacred mountain, Kailash[/caption] More than 30 years ago, I saw the Dalai Lama on German TV, laughing and joking as he likes to do. And I was appalled. I wondered self-righteously how the exiled leader of a country in utter despair...
Susan has spent a lot of time in Paris; much less so for me. Paris was a natural stop driving back to London from Torino, but we had no plans, depending on serendipity to have Paris be a big part of our trip. Seerendipity lives. We...
[caption id="attachment_24656" align="alignleft" width="300"] Torino and the Alps, Sunset[/caption] We returned. Most vagabonds never get there. And that's a miss. Turin (or Torino in Italian) is a very interesting town in the northern Piedmont region, Italy's first capital (in 1861) and home to Italy's royal family,...
[caption id="attachment_24445" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chez Steel, Provence[/caption] When Peter Mayle moved to Provence over 20 years ago, his idea was to write, yes, but a novel, not a memoir that put his adopted hometown dead center of any tourist's map of Provence. For better or for...
