Designing Women: Telluride goes to New Zealand
by Sue Hobby and Amy Boebel After 26 hours of travel, we got to Wellington at 10 am. The day we got in we went to the dress rehearsal for the show – it is held in a huge spac
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Telluride’s designing women head for New Zealand
Telluride locals, Amy Jean Boebel and Sue Hobby are on the way to New Zealand. The sculptor and the fiber artist recycled and fashioned garments from aluminum steel that were accep
Blogging from a Broad: On The Road To Blatten
My six day hike began with a warm up outing through classic Valasian pastureland. Our group of eight women stayed at the elegant Lindner Hotel in Lukerbad, home to 30 minera
An Uphill Adventure, From Mund to Belalp
Waking up at the hotel Edelweiss in Switzerland, with a crisp breeze in the air and a sprinkling of rain had our group of eight women hikers a bit tentative as we set out on our bu
Blogging From A Broad: First Stop Chamonix
I celebrated my 50th birthday in Chicago with friends and family before heading on a two week trek in France and Switzerland. I have been saving for this trip since 2002 and
Maribeth Clemente on Telluride’s KOTO
Maribeth Clemente is host of Travel Fun, a talk show on Telluride's KOTO public radio. On September 8, 6:30 p.m., her special guest is documentarian and Telluride Film Festival
On the Road from Telluride
In previous posts I have mentioned that it is difficult to leave Telluride in any season, but in Summer, for me, it is hard to even contemplate. Susan left two weeks ago to finish
Billings and Telluride’s Ah Haa School offer art immersion in Bali
[click “Play” button to hear Susan X. Billings on Bali trip] Artist Susan X. Billings of mangoworkshops.com, an umbrella for artful travel, in conjunction with Tellurid
Big Green Bus arrives in Telluride
The Big Green Bus was on Main Street, Telluride for a few hours on Monday, July 27. Did you see it? The Bus is decked out with sustainable bamboo flooring, recycled glass counters,
Maribeth Clemente At Between the Covers on July 14
Travel writer Maribeth Clemente will be doing an event Tuesday, July 14th, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Between the Covers Bookstore. July 14th is Bastille Day, the French equivalent
Returning to Telluride: TIO in Kansas City
As anxious as we were to get home to Telluride, we dawdled leaving the Hastings' home in Indianapolis. It was just too pleasant to rush out. So we had a short drive on Saturday
Returning to Telluride: TIO in Indianapolis
Lots of things were broken in the early 1990s: the economy and my arm. The country turned to the Man from Hope to fix the economic downturn. (Clinton did.) To fix the arm, the resu
More on the “Out” part of “Telluride Inside…and Out.”
In Germantown, New York, we visited friends Jane Taylor and Frederic Ohringer, newly transplanted Telluride locals. Their new home is a newly renovated farmhouse from the 1800s. Th
Road Trip: Telluride to Chicago
After a brief stop at home in Telluride after our visits to West Coast family, Sus and I left on the next phase of our Spring travels on Friday, 17 April. For those of you who were
Back in Telluride (for a few days)
Sus and I returned to Telluride for a few days. We're between visits to family and friends on the West Coast and more of the same in the East. It's great to be home, even f
Dateline: Palm Springs
Let me go on the record here: I don't like leaving Telluride, even in the off seasons. But if one is to travel, and there are good reasons (new places, family, friends, etc.) t
Elisabeth Gick returns to Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library with third all-Tibet program
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Elisabeth Gick] As part of Telluride's week-long "Phenomenal Woman" Celebrations" Telluride Ins
“The Saltman of Tibet” at Wilkinson Public Library
Part two of Elisabeth Gick's three-part series on Tibet at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library is a pause to refresh from the country's challenges: a screening
Eilsabeth Gick on Tibet: out loud at the library tomorrow
[click to hear Elisabeth Gick on Tibet] Elisabeth Gick first came to Telluride in September of 1979, like so many of us, an “accidental tourist.” “The beauty of the valle
Elisabeth and Lesley visit an orphanage
In October 2008, Telluride local Elisabeth Gick and daughter Leslie were spending one last afternoon in the town of Ganzi in upper Kham, eastern Tibet, enjoying the sunshine after
The Correa clan, San Vicente and Cauquenes
Boomers might remember “Leave It to Beaver,” the 1950s sitcom about the perfect all-American family of the Eisenhower years. The program was sweet enough to give a person a too
The Telluride Connection in Marchihue
Birthday Cakes for Vivien and Clint The Residencia Historica is located just a few kilometers from the toy town of Marchihue and 40 minutes from the much larger Santa Cruz
The “Out” part of “Telluride Inside…and Out”
Take a left turn out of Telluride and people wind up some place wonderful in the great wide world, where they do wonderful things in a state of wonderment. That’s part of what we
Chile… and Telluride
You're going to have to take my word on this one, at least for now: there is a Telluride connection. It goes through Rick Silverman and Telluride Mountainfilm. Sus can tell tha