Telluride

From Denver, we first drove over to Telluride, CO. We wanted a big car for the 1500 mile trip, so we could have alot of space for Nolan and all our stuff. We didn't want the road to own us, we wanted to own the road. And with our Grand Marquis, we literally did own the road. The thing takes up almost both lanes of the highway its so big. They said we were probably the first people under the age of 75 to have rented this car:

Telluride is a cool old mining town turned ski resort town. It's located way in the back where all the mountains come together:


The town is about 7000 ft above sea level and then the mountain village where we stayed is another couple thousand feet above it. The mountain village is connected to the town by a gondola that's free to ride. Alot of the people who live up in the mountain village commute to town that way to work. Here we are going to dinner in town:

Here's the town looking down from the gondola:

Nolan enjoying his first Gondola ride (even the rain didn't bother him):

Downtown main street:

Our mountain lodge where we had our first taste of snow for the season: