Telluride

This town is what postcards are made of, absolutely breathtaking.   It is located just the other side of the mountain from Silverton, Colorado.  We drove to the edge of town past a working mine on a rocky unlevel road with plenty of  holes where water congregated after their daily rains.  It ended at the base of a majestic mountain with 3 waterfalls.  There was a huge home on top of a plateau next to one of the waterfalls built on the edge of a cliff.  I wonder how they get to that house, helicopter maybe? 
Parking is a premium in this town.  If you can find parking on the main street it is 50 cents per hour with a 2 hour max.  There are parking lots on the outskirts of town with free parking and free shuttle services.  We happened upon a free parking spot for 2 hours max on a residential street one block from the main road. 
We wandered through some shops and toured a museum in town.  There are a lot of very upscale shops in this town.  Many clothing stores and restaurants do not post prices on their clothing and restaurants post menu's without prices.  If you need to ask the price, it is too expensive for you.  One shop made custom hats and boots.  One store had a woman's goatskin jacket for $1400.  I found polo shirts starting at $178.  This is a wealthy person's playground where a 2 bedroom 1 bath house on a small lot can fetch over $1 million. 
Gondola's take you all over between Telluride and Mountain Center (just above Telluride) and are free.  They have been designed so they are grounded when lightning strikes.  We drove up to Mountain Center to have lunch.  There was an exclusive restaurant with outstanding views where I wanted to eat, but they were not open until after 5PM.  Just as well, Chicken was $28 and Lamb chops were $49.  Those prices were alacart.  Soup, salad, bread, vegetable were options.  We ate at a place called Tomboy Tavern.  Aggie & I shared a pork loin sandwich & an order of shrimp taco's.  Yummy!  I washed mine down with a local draft beer and Aggie stopped for a Starbucks coffee afterward. 
The museum had a $5 entrance fee and was quite interesting.  I was born in 1950 and I recognized many of the antiques which dated to the 1800's.  I must be getting old.  An interesting factoid - Did you know a good prostitute could service 80 men per day.  That was not a typo.