Telluride, take one. [SOUND]
Hey everyone, I'm back.
Its been a while.
Sorry. I moved to San
Antonio so hence the new background,
hope you like it.
So yeah, if you follow me on Snapchat,
Instagram you know that earlier
this month I was in Telluride, Colorado.
One of my good friends got married there and Mr
Hallease and I were invited to the wedding, and we felt special cuz
it was such an exclusive wedding.
And plus we definitely used going to Telluride, Colorado as a little
mini vacation for us to just see a part of the country that I actually
really haven't seen before.
It is literally in-between mountains.
[LAUGH]
So getting to it is
actually quite difficult.
We actually flew into Durango,
which is about two hours outside
Telluride and drove a rental car in to Telluride itself.
The main thing about Telluride is mountains,
mountains, mountains,
mountains.
Telluride is mostly a skiing/hiking,
biking, just outdoorsy kind of town.
So since we were there in July,
there was no snow and so it was
more about hiking.
There's a whole bunch of hiking trails.
You can drive out to different
mountain views and check out other hiking and biking trails.
You're right next to many national parks and as you're driving to
Telluride from Durango,
you're passing by multiple lake, national
park, entrance national park,
entrance national park.
And we did attempt to try to hike but because we did not bring the
right shoes, also because it was so wet and rainy,
it really just wasn't
conducive so we immediately gave up,
[LAUGH]
And went back home
to the New Sheridan Hotel.
The smell of pine fills the air as soon as you get off the plane.
To me the mountains almost like they command that you look at them.
Like they command that you be in awe of them.
So yeah, we stayed at the New Sheridan Hotel which is on the main
strip of Telluride.
Telluride itself again is very small.
It's like a main city block and then that's kinda it.
[LAUGH]
So, yeah.
Keep that in mind.
It is small.
I would say if you are not that outdoorsy in nature,
I would not
recommend going to Telluride,
Colorado.
Unless you just really wanna just be isolated and just away from
people for a while.
I could totally see how a place like Telluride,
Colorado could be
like an introvert's dream.
Throw inner/g cabin vibes.
Eating in Telluride.
There's a lot of great fine dining restaurants.
I would definitely recommend staying within American cuisine.
I would definitely not recommend veering off into different ethnic
minority foods while you're there.
Because to be frank,
Telluride is very white.
I did have elk while we were there though.
That was baller.
I've never had elk before.
It was good.
It was real good.
I highly recommend the elk if you haven't tried it before.
[LAUGH]
It is a very white city.
Most days, I was the only black person that I saw for the day,
most
days.
I think the thing that was interesting about Telluride from an African American
perspective is that you have to make a certain amount of money
to be in a place like Telluride as a tourist on vacation.
If you're there it's going to automatically be assumed that you make a certain
amount of money.
And so for me and Mr.
Hallease to be there, people I think just didn't know how to think
of us.
I think they were just definitely like,
well, they make a certain
amount of money because they're here.
[LAUGH]
But then they're also like,
but they're minorities though, so.
[LAUGH]
So much so that while we were there an older Caucasian woman
just blatantly came up to us at one point and was just like
where are y'all from?
And expecting us I think to have accents and say,
just to be of exotic
money.
You know I use that term loosely,
exotic money.
And when we were both like Texas
[LAUGH]
she was like oh and she was
definitely just like oh,
almost to say oh minorities make
money?
I was telling a friend when I'm here in Texas I think I'm reminded
that I'm black in some way at least once a day,
once or twice a
day probably.
There it was like every hour on the hour.
It was like oh yeah,
I'm black.
[LAUGH]
Something that I definitely
recommend that you do while you're in Telluride is take the gondola.
The gondola is a free service that gets you from town to town, and
it's so beautiful.
You get to see such an amazing view of each little town that you're
going to. And once again the mountains are so extraordinary.
The smell of pine, the fresh air,
it's so great.
I would definitely recommend taking the gondola
while you're there.
But would I ever go back?
I definitely would.
I mean I'd go back if
we were ever invited again, I would definitely
go back.
I would definitely camp,
and I would
definitely hike more.
I would go into it with a mind set of bringing hiking and camping
stuffs and just like being one with nature.
As Evelyn would say you know just wear my hair product free and
just be out there.
So I would definitely do that if I ever went back to Telluride.
In the comments below let me know if you have been to Telluride
and the experience you had while you were there, and yeah I'll see 147 00:05:37,574 --> 00:00:00,000 you when I see you.