{"id":432,"date":"2018-07-09T03:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T03:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2018-07-09T03:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T03:49:41","slug":"more-new-beginnings-and-beauty-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/more-new-beginnings-and-beauty-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"More New Beginnings and Beauty All Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howdy everyone!\u00a0 We have been enjoying the Denver area, visiting Samantha at her new home.\u00a0 We arrived to the RV park in Golden, CO on July 4th.\u00a0 It’s a great location, only about 5 miles from where Samantha lives and we have a view of the foothills out our windows.\u00a0 That’s the good news.\u00a0 The downside is that the RV park is super crowded, the spots are not big enough for the big rigs (ours included) even though they advertise otherwise.\u00a0 We’re told it’s one of the few RV parks near Denver that can accommodate big rigs (such that it is).\u00a0 We white knuckled it as we drove through the campground to our spot – people’s trucks and tow cars don’t fit onto the assigned spots so they hang out into the driveway which makes it really hard to drive thru with the rig.\u00a0 But Steve did a great job getting us into our spot and we’ve made the most of it.\u00a0 Did I mention we’ve had the good fortune to enjoy the almost nightly live bands directly across the road at the big biker bar?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41 Oh, and the loud motorcycles that come and go morning noon and night at the big biker bar???\u00a0 Oh well, it’s an experience and makes us appreciate the more remote, quite places we are heading to next.<\/p>\n

We’ve had a great visit with Samantha and her friend Ryan who moved out here with her.\u00a0 She graduated from OU in May (yeah!) and moved here the end of May.\u00a0 She will be working at a cannabis company, with 2 retail locations and grow facilities.\u00a0 This is her dream come true, to work in the cannabis industry, and she is excited to start her career.\u00a0 There’s a rather lengthy process to get credentialed to work in the industry, and she’s making her way through the process.\u00a0 She should be fully credentialed and able to start work by end of July.\u00a0 She is so happy here and we are so proud of her, she has worked hard to make this happen.<\/p>\n

We got out for a hike the other day with Samantha.\u00a0 A great trail, only a few miles away.\u00a0 We were enjoying the hike in spite of the heat and then we met a rattlesnake right on the trail!\u00a0 Steve almost stepped on him since he was leading the way on the trail, but didn’t see him.\u00a0 Samantha saw the snake and screamed.\u00a0 So Steve was on one side of the snake, Samantha and I were on the other side of him and Mr. Snake was not showing any signs of moving.\u00a0 Steve threw a couple of rocks at him hoping to motivate him to move, but no luck.\u00a0 There was no way to go around him, there was a steep drop off on one side and a high rock on the other side.\u00a0 So, Steve took a long branch, pushed the snake out of the way while Samantha and I ran by him on the trail.\u00a0 His rattle was going full speed and it was scary!!\u00a0 Thank goodness Gerry was at doggy daycare that day! We are\u00a0 worried about our hiking in this region over the next few months…not sure what we are going to do yet about that.\u00a0 We’ve been reading about what to do in the event of a bite.\u00a0 I have a picture of the snake below for your viewing pleasure!<\/p>\n

Steve looked up an old college friend, Adam, who lives in the Denver area and we were able to get together for lunch while here.\u00a0 They hadn’t seen each other in about 35 years!!\u00a0 Was so nice to visit together and hear them talk about the old days!\u00a0 I have a picture below of the two of them.<\/p>\n

My last post was about New Beginnings and Beauty All Around.\u00a0 I think we can put this post under the same category – New Beginnings and Beauty All Around.\u00a0 Life is good!<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to move on to our adventure for the summer, the Southwest.\u00a0 We leave here in the morning for the southwest part of Colorado.\u00a0 We’re going to spend the next few months exploring Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.\u00a0 Hopefully we’ll be able to enjoy lots of hiking and seeing all the National Parks in the area without any more visits from Rattlesnakes!!!<\/p>\n

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At the OU Graduation in May. Great to have all 3 kids together!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Samantha and Ryan at Graduation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is when we first arrived to Colorado for the move in May<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At our hike, before we knew Mr. Snake was lurking up ahead!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mr. Snake!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Old friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howdy everyone!\u00a0 We have been enjoying the Denver area, visiting Samantha at her new home.\u00a0 We arrived to the RV park in Golden, CO on July 4th.\u00a0 It’s a great location, only about 5 miles from where Samantha lives and we have a view of the foothills out our windows.\u00a0 That’s the good news.\u00a0 The … Continue reading More New Beginnings and Beauty All Around<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}