To Hell You Ride

5 Truths, 5 Lies. You can decide which is one, or the other.

Oh Telluride.

The Town of Telluride was founded in 1878 and was originally known as Columbia. It was renamed in 1881 to avoid confusion with another mining camp. Telluride was reportedly named after tellurium, a gold bearing ore, although a popular myth attributes the name to people saying, “To hell you ride” upon departing for the mining camp.

The town’s isolation at the bottom of a long box canyon along the San Miguel River Valley surrounded by the high peaks of the San Juan Mountains presented numerous challenges and hardships to early settlers drawn by the promise of gold and silver.

Truth or Lie #1 – Nashville is so pleasant in the Summertime

Enough of the softballs, round 2 will make you think

After driving for 14 hours, we decided to book a place in Taos, NM We had 48 hours before our Telluride check-in and decided to stay at an artistic cottage home in Taos, NM.

Truth or Lie. After getting in around midnight we had a beer and crashed. I found some amazing huevos rancheros and latte for breakfast, and during this divine gastric experience, realized that Jena had only booked said cottage for 24 hours. Check out was in 20 minutes.

So we found a place and went on about having a good time, until

Truth or Lie: When you don’t like Thunder but wanna shred the gnar. Angel Fire outside of Taos, NM. Candy did great in spite of the thunder.

Onto Telluride, or, To Hell You Ride

The town’s isolation at the bottom of a long box canyon along the San Miguel River Valley surrounded by the high peaks of the San Juan Mountains presented numerous challenges and hardships to early settlers drawn by the promise of gold and silver.

What those poor settlers could only imagine is that one day there would be a free gondola to drag this fatass up the side of the mountain to 10.5

Truths or Lies:

Jena’s decision to take the valley single track back into town was sweet.

How many was that? LOL

Truth or Lie: CR56v is gravel road code for let me punch you in the soul dong

Truth or Lie – There was not a Death March this year.

Keep the stoke flowing, To Hell You Ride, we will return,

Ciao’