Day-23 – The real house(wives) of Grand Junction

Sept. 29
Grand Junction/CO and Palisades/CO
Total driving so far 2,328 miles / 3,725 km.

http://our airbnb in Grand Junction-on-google.maps
http://Palisade/CO-on-google.maps

Grand Junction turned out to be a really nice place; a population of about 65,000 people, a small downtown area, which consists of one main road with a few cafes, breweries, restaurants and stores, a Colorado University campus, a college football stadium, a few parks. A clean, friendly, safe town, that word town seems to fit better than ‘city’. Its located in the center of the Grand Valley, which stretches 30 miles along the Colorado River. ‘Junction’ since the Gunnison river runs into the Colorado river right in town.

The houses are quite charming, not large and pompous, rather suburban single family homes, but not cookie cutter style. They provide a real neighborhood feeling:

The situation changes completely 10 minutes from town center towards the southern rim of the valley, where the entrance to the Colorado National Monument is located. Right there, at the onset of the cliffs of the National Monument canyons, the houses are large, fancy and expensive.

We decided to stalk them with the drone:

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Driving east in the valley, one reaches after 15 minutes a small town named Palisade; its known for its vineyards and peach farms. All farming is depending on the irrigation via the Colorado like everywhere else in the valley.

One can see in the back of the houses the enormous cones of rock and sand, that are characteristic for the whole northern rim of the Grand Valley:

So where are the real housewives of Grand Junction?

… they are there for sure, but that tv series has not made it yet to these towns …