{"id":1399,"date":"2021-09-13T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:26:50","slug":"hello-from-close-to-guffey-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Hello from close to Guffey, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from close to Guffey, CO<\/p>\n<p>Draft started Monday afternoon\u2013 September 6, 2021\u00a0\u00a0 (First post of this travelogue).\u00a0 Posted Monday September 13, 2021<\/p>\n<p>We are spending the Labor Day weekend at Pat\u2019s Bother\u2019s place.\u00a0 Jeff and Julie are simply great folks and so generous to offer their wonderful \u201chomestead\u201d to us and our family.\u00a0 Their acreage is located about 15 miles from Guffey, Colorado.\u00a0 The map for this travelogue is centered in Guffey since we don\u2019t want to show our actual location because it is private property <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/38%C2%B045'11.2%22N+105%C2%B031'11.6%22W\/@38.7531042,-105.5549189,8589m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d38.7531!4d-105.5199\">(Google map)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>{google_map}38.7531, -105.5199{\/google_map}<\/p>\n<p>This has been an amazing weekend.\u00a0 We arrived about 1;00 PM on Thursday (9\/2) and will leave tomorrow. Daughter Lisa and all of her family made it at various times.\u00a0 Shawna (Jeff and Julie\u2019s daughter) and her family were here as well.\u00a0 It was such a great \u201cmix\u201d of folks (and four dogs {grin}see photo).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1400\" src=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/241001889_4765602906801201_9152937281500534716_n-e1631553789653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a pretty laid back gathering.\u00a0 Some folks took a long hike into the BLM land that borders on their property.\u00a0\u00a0 A couple of the Kassel guys did some target practice with their sophisticated bows, and several of the folks did target practice with pistols and rifles.\u00a0 The variety of firearms was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night we went into Guffey and had a great dinner at the Freshwater Bar and Grill.\u00a0 This place has the decor and friendly atmosphere that you would expect in a very small town \u2013 lots of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, did we eat well.\u00a0 Dan brought his large double burner stove and a special grill that he made for it.\u00a0 He prepared several meals and they were fantastic.\u00a0 In addition, they brought at least 40 breakfast burritos for the group.<\/p>\n<p>I am including a couple of photos to show how beautiful the area is.\u00a0 A couple of the photos are taken facing south and show the adjacent BLM land.\u00a0 One of the photos shows us on our 57<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1401\" src=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/241028391_4765603223467836_3993408539336725945_n-e1631553890760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1402\" src=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/241434480_4765602760134549_8002217762889644983_n-e1631553974140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"678\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is all of this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from close to Guffey, CO Draft started Monday afternoon\u2013 September 6, 2021\u00a0\u00a0 (First post of this travelogue).\u00a0 Posted Monday September 13, 2021 We are spending the Labor Day weekend at Pat\u2019s Bother\u2019s place.\u00a0 Jeff and Julie are simply great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=1399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}