Friday September 11, 2009 3:37 P.M.

I’ve just arrived in Pagosa Springs, Colorado for my Interval International timeshare exchange at the San Juan Mountain and Golf Resort after an 8 hour drive from my home in Scottsdale, Arizona.  It’s been a beautiful drive but I’m happy to get checked in and pop open a beer.

I’m immediately impressed with the timeshare villa.  I have a gorgeous 2 bedroom attached home complete with a garage.  The home is about 1600 square feet, has 16 foot arched ceilings and is very tastefully furnished.  In fact, there is a solid leather couch/sofa sleeper in front of the natural stone fireplace and 46 in flat screen TV in the living room.  This is when owning a timeshare really pays off.

The whole place is filled with natural light and I have a great view of the San Juan Mountains from the living room and master bedroom.  The kitchen boasts stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops with contemporary pendant lighting hanging from the ceiling.

Both bedrooms have king size beds and flat panel TV’s and the master bath has double sinks, a walk in shower and a spa tub big enough to comfortably fit 2 adults.  All the furnishings are top quality.  This is definitely a timeshare I’d recommend and come back to.

I had chosen to do a last minute timeshare exchange to Pagaosa Springs over one in Glacier, Montana because of a few things: I could drive to Pagosa Springs and there were balloon, wine/ food and beer/music festivals all going on the weekend I arrived.  In addition, the golf rates dropped from $89/round to $47.  A perfect vacation for me.  Get out of the desert heat, see some green mountains, eat, drink and play golf.

I awoke both Saturday and Sunday mornings to a sky filled with colorful balloons.  Back dropped against the San Juan Mountains they made a beautiful site.  One even landed 50 yards from my timeshare in an open field.

Colorfest Balloon Festival

I hadn’t realized that the wine and food festival was only on the Friday night that I arrived so unfortunately I missed it.  On Saturday afternoon I did drive by the venue where the beer and music festival were being held, but it didn’t look interesting enough so I didn’t attend.

I played 2 rounds of golf at the Pagosa Springs Golf Club, a really nice 27 hole course.  The course and greens were in excellent shape and for only $47 including cart I found it to be one of the best courses I’ve played for a while at that price.  For an added touch, there were wooden carvings of animals along some of the holes of mountain lions and eagles.

Nice touch to Pagosa Springs Golf Course

Wood carving on one of the holes

In my last post I’ll be talking about my day trip to America’s largest archeological park.

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