Monday, July 03, 2006
Monday we drove to Telluride. It was a pretty drive there and the town is quite unique. The homes are very attractively painted and landscaped. The downtown has many stores and restaurants that cater to tourists. We ate at a very nice upscale Mexican restaurant and then walked around town for a short time before taking a gondola ride that leads to a very ritzy town, Mountain Village, which is up the mountain above Telluride. It seems to be mainly second homes and ski shops, restaurants, hotels etc. for the wealthy. Someone told us Oprah had been there the week before. In a weekly Telluride I saw prices for houses for sale mostly well over a million dollars, some as high as 4 + million for both Telluride and Mountain Village. We had fun looking around, riding the gondola and seeing the beautiful views.