{"id":82,"date":"2012-06-30T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/hello-from-dillon-co-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:59:00","slug":"hello-from-dillon-co-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Dillon, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Dillon, CO<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Afternoon&nbsp;&nbsp; June 30, 2012&nbsp;&nbsp; (First travelogue of this trip).<\/p>\n<p>We are the Heaton Bay Campground <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?t=h&amp;q=39.60320,-106.07866%28Shepherd%29\">(map)<\/a>.&nbsp; This campground is located between Dillon and Frisco on the shores of Dillon Reservoir.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are having our annual family vacation.&nbsp; This year is special in that we have our extended family (&#8217;81\/&#8217;82 German exchange daughter and her family).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Irina and Matthias and their three year old son Viktor flew to Denver on Thursday 6\/21.&nbsp; We met them at the airport and had a quick reunion before taking them to their hotel.&nbsp; The next day we met them at the Cruise America RV rental facility so that they could rent a 25 foot motorhome.&nbsp; They have been camping at a few locations before joining us here on Thursday.&nbsp; We will be here until 7\/5.&nbsp; After they leave here, they will be doing some additional camping in the Crested Butte\/Taylor Reservoir area.<\/p>\n<p>We have kept in close contact with Irina and her family over the years.&nbsp; We have been fortunate to have all of her family visit us.&nbsp; Irina has made several return visits.&nbsp; Pat and I have also visited Irina several times.&nbsp; In 2004 Irina and Matthias joined our family vacation in Ouray, CO.&nbsp; On the way, Matthias proposed to Irina on Monarch Pass!!!!&nbsp; In 2005 we traveled to Karlsrhue, Germany to attend their wedding (Kelly, Damon and Madison also got to attend the wedding).<\/p>\n<p>We arrived here Thursday afternoon (6\/28).&nbsp; Kelly, Lisa and Irina and their families will be here the full time and Judy and family will be here part of the time.<\/p>\n<p>This campground was decimated by the pine bark beetle a few years ago, but it is showing signs of new growth.&nbsp; It is surrounded by beautiful mountains on all sides.&nbsp; The campground is at about 9100 feet, so the days are much cooler than the terribly hot weather in Denver and the evenings are chilly (lower 40s).&nbsp; I have attached a photo of the bus in the campground.&nbsp; The photo does not do justice to beautiful mountains in the background.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-X8yVksYR9Hg\/T--Ej8L0PAI\/AAAAAAAAAb4\/juXoF79YkJY\/s1600\/Bus+at+Heaton+Bay.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"182\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-X8yVksYR9Hg\/T--Ej8L0PAI\/AAAAAAAAAb4\/juXoF79YkJY\/s320\/Bus+at+Heaton+Bay.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nBus at Heaton Bay Campground<\/div>\n<p>\nSo far, we have mostly been relaxing and having fun with the kids and grandkids.<\/p>\n<p>That is all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Dillon, CO Saturday Afternoon&nbsp;&nbsp; June 30, 2012&nbsp;&nbsp; (First travelogue of this trip). We are the Heaton Bay Campground (map).&nbsp; This campground is located between Dillon and Frisco on the shores of Dillon Reservoir.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are having our annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=82\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-82","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\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}