Aspen, CO, USA
Arrived in Aspen on Saturday after a 6am flight from Oakland to Denver and several hours’ drive in the snow. I’m here as a guest of 500-odd Green Corps and PIRG people.
Spent the first day trying out cross country skiing, the second and third days were spent downhill skiing, a few days of not-a-lot and a little snowshoeing.
Spotting celebrities and paparazzi is easy here, but I don’t know who most of them are; however we and at least ten other people saw and met Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip at the Belly Up, how weird is that!?
Here are to videos we took of them:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ays1Shy-hSE
http://www.youtube.com/v/uST-NUtNzBI
National Car Rental are a bit rubbish:
We had real difficulty getting a rental car to get out of town; we booked on line with National and were told the pickup was at 5pm. We heard a rumor that their rental pickup point was not at Aspen airport with all the other rental companys so we called National to check and they told us that it was at the airport. Can you guess what happened when we got to the airport at 5pm? Yep, not only were they not at the airport but they close at 5pm!. Every rental company there told us this happens several times a day. Alamo did their best for us by finding another car for us (something no other company were able to do) but it has cost us twice what we were quoted by National. I have complained and they gave me $50 for what cost me $130 and was entirely their fault, not sure how i feel about that.The drive back to Denver was very scary too, leaving at 4am in deep snow and driving for 5 hours on uncleared roads was sketchy but we made it.
