Back from Telluride

This weekend was quite an experience.

Awesome hammock city in Town Park

We drove out to Telluride for the bluegrass music festival on Thursday afternoon, arriving just in time for Allison Krauss.  Josh and I didn't have tickets, but the valley projects the music a long ways and we could hear just fine camped out by the creek.

For anyone who knows me and my music taste, I don't have a lot of bluegrass in my repertoire.  I've always enjoyed the genre when it happened to come on NPR or something similar but it was never the type of thing I took the time to download.  Last week when I met Andrea and Cody, they tried to tempt me into going by pulling up the line-up to show me all the big name bluegrass groups that would be there only to find that I didn't recognize but maybe two of the twenty plus bands playing all weekend.  That said, I just downloaded a TON of new music.

The weekend was a very altering experience.  The town, the people, the group I was with,  the music and just the overall atmosphere all combined into this magical thing that yanks you out of reality.  And now that I'm back home, the decompression from all of that sensory overload is pretty extreme.

On the drive home yesterday we stopped to try and do Otto's Route at Colorado National Monument.  I remember thinking that it felt the same as when I'd get home from summer camp as a kid.  I'd just had this epic weekend that will stay in my mind for years.  I yearned to hold onto it, and every mile we drove away from the festival I felt it slipping away.  And in its wake was a pretty extreme sense of loss.  My life is wonderful right now, but going back to wonderful from the fantasy world of Telluride proved a lot to handle.

Better after a nights sleep and the distraction of another week in Boulder.  I've got some video of a really talented girl performing on the street one night I'm working on getting up.  Hoping to pull together a good group for Happy Thursday this week.  Josh and I are close to starting construction on our structure for Burning Man.  Lots of great things to keep me occupied while the festival goodness settles in.