The Drive to Telluride and Harmel's

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Welcome to my first post! I will be doing my best this summer to keep this blog up to date and share what I am up to at Harmel's. I'm so excited to get this going, so let's get started!

I left the house yesterday morning at around 9:15 and actually left Flagstaff at 10am (I drove passed my usual gas station, so I had to drive back, then go to the bank, then I went to Starbucks for breakfast and it was really crowded, but I was really hungry).

The whole drive really wasn't that bad. I went to Gallop, NM for my first gas stop (no offense to anyone, but that place was weird and sketchy), then I went up the 491 through Native American Reservation, up to Cortez, CO, and then made my way up to Telluride, which is where I stayed last night.








It was so beautiful there! It had snowed there the night before and so it looked like winter in the little valley and there still could of been skiing on the mountain. But, I checked into my hotel/Inn and it was so cute! It was one small, tiny block away from downtown, so I could just walk to go get dinner and a beer, which I did. (Haha). Unfortunately, most of the stores where closed by the time I got there (like that Patagonia and fly fishing store), so I went this morning after breakfast. I got a new hat and shirt at the Patagonia store and I went to the fly store to get my fishing license.

After getting that taken care of, I got on the road and made my way for the ranch. The rest of the drive was beautiful. I feel like I made good time to Gunnison and then again to the ranch. I got there around 1:15pm MST.

To be continued...

(Next post will be about settling into the ranch and my first day.)


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