- The manageable, walk-able size of town.
- Hickory House Barbecue (get the ribs)
- The shopping (all the usual luxury suspects)
- Speaking of shopping, there's an Aviator Nation here, they make my favorite sweatpants in the world.
- The relaxed outdoor recreation culture
- You don't need to dress up, pretty much ever.
- The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen is the best food festival in America.
- The luxury condos and all the marble and dark wood furniture.
- The luxury hotels and hotel dining. I love a good hotel lobby bar and this place has them in spades.
- Great restaurants everywhere
- The oxygen bar at the St. Regis is one of my favorite places, having those tubes stuck up my nose and lounging in a pile of faux fur blankets makes me feel like Edina from AbFab.
- The air
- All the people I've ever met who live here full-time are A+++++ humans.
December 13, 2018
Reasons I love Aspen
I'm in Aspen for the seventh time—I love it here. It's the quintessential (super rich, very fancy) small American town and if I had a bazillion dollars I could see myself living here, at least part of the year. Here's an incomplete and very random list of reasons I love Aspen, Colorado.