Off To Telluride
I believe that the best vacations are those that bring friends and family together. Though I’ve had many vacations, one trip defiantly stands out form the others. This vacation started when me, my best friend john, my mom, and my dad, decided to accompany my older sister to the 41st annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival takes place in Telluride, Colorado and starts on Thursday June 19th and ends on Sunday the 22nd. On each of the four days there are six to seven performances by various musicians that play Bluegrass or genres close to it. For me, it was thrilling to know that I would not only experience live music for the first time but also visit Colorado for the first time. Three days …show more content…
When we had reached Flagstaff and checked into our hotel john and I decided to grab our guitars and see if we could make some money. This was a bold move for us because we had never played in front of anyone other than our close friends. We surprised even ourselves and made about thirty dollars before triumphantly sauntering back to the hotel and falling asleep. In the morning, we both grudgingly got ready for the long trek to Telluride. The second part of the drive started with going through the Navaho Indian reservation to the border of Colorado. This part of the drive was mentally challenging due to the ceaseless amount of wide open space. In its own way those land were bewitching, but at the same time it left me with a desolate feeling. The drive into Telluride was breathtaking because it winded through the San Juan Mountain range. Every turn in the road revealed a new wonder whether it was snow peaked mountains, towering ridges covered in forest, or astonishing lakes surrounded by cabins. By the time we reached Telluride we thought we couldn’t see anything else that could amaze us, as it turns out we were very …show more content…
When we woke up we got ready and headed down to the gondola ride into Telluride. On the ride we got to see the town in its entirety. It was only about two miles long from end to end and sat between to miraculous mountains. Going through most of the town there was a river that constantly flowed and had small bridges over it about every hundred feet. Telluride was like nothing john and I had ever seen and we could hardly believe our eyes at the sight of it. Once the gondola ride ended we had a short walk to the festival grounds. The festival took place on a park about the size of two football fields that sat on the edge of the river. At the end of the field there was a large stage made of wood that fit its surroundings perfectly. Along the edges of the field there were hundreds of stands for food and merchandise. The whole field looked as if it was painted thousands of different colors because every group of people had to race to lay out a tarp at the beginning of the day. We all sat about twenty feet away from the stage on lawn chairs with about five or six other people that we got to know over the course of the festival. Once the music began, nothing but fun ensued for the rest of the