Category: Vacation

Platform tennis in Teluride 1999

Drove to Teluride with a toddler in the back seat.  Long drive, fantastic scenery.  Tourney was casual.  I think they only had one court.  I played with John the engineering prof from School of Mines.  I think we won.  Most of the locals had barely played the game before.

There was an awesome party thrown by one of the millionaire locals.

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D&N 50th, Gunflint lodge & Silver Bay

We had a pro photographer come take group pictures.  These are my outtakes. Dave and Nancy, Paula and Jeremy, Tim, Eileen, and Madeline in attendance.

Madeline was about six months old.  We schlept 100 pounds of baby gear through the Minneapolis airport on a 99F day to our rental car, then drove north for 4-5 hours to the Gunflint lodge.

I remember that Pops had paid for the Platinum meal plan at the lodge’s 4 star restaurant.  Giant breakfasts, “a little lunch” in our cabin, a five course meal every night.  There was little to be done towards burning away the 7,000 calories we were packing in every day.   I gained 10 pounds.  Great time all the way around tho.

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We stopped in at Silver Bay on the way home to visit Uncle Ed.  Here’s a few random shots.

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Snowmass, Crested Butte, Teluride

Around Labor Day 1991 we signed up for a big tennis tourney in Snowmass.  We’d already played an Aspen tourney a year ago this time of year, we knew it was a great time.  Being poor and cheap by nature, we camped in the back of our dinky little Toyota, down by the river.  The river in this case was Woody Creek.

After the tourney, we drove back to Carbondale, the headed south across Scofield Pass, then to Kebler Pass, and on in to Crested Butte, camping out of our truck along the way.

At some point, coming or going, we drove by the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, an amazingly deep valley carved by the Gunnison River.

Finally, we spent a very short time in Teluride.  The weather turned wet and cold.  Cheap or not, we checked into a condo to warm up.

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Orr and Pelican Lake

This was my first time up there.  Probably not for Eileen.

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