{"id":8527,"date":"2007-06-23T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:21:36","slug":"running-home-to-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/06\/running-home-to-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Running home to Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to my folks &#8211; South Fork, CO &#8211; close to being ready and expect to roll by 11:30.\u00a0 Already above 80 here in Mesa Verde &#8211; I&#8217;m still struggling with voice and throat closing at night so headed for my Mama&#8217;s house and a bit of pampering &#8211; plus cooler temps and maybe some of this throat stuff is allergy which might clear??? &#8211; I am ever hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>Arrived at my folks approx 3:40 to wonderful temps in low 80&#8217;s and nice breeze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/SFMamas.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Mama and Bill's RV Park\" height=\"198\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 198px\" title=\"Mama and Bill's RV Park\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between Durango and Pagosa Springs, CO is Piedra River Valley and Chimney Rock.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve visited both with my mother on previous visits.\u00a0 Stopped at the little Chimney Rock gas station\/store\/restaurant\/rv park for &#8220;old times sake&#8221; and to take some photos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/ChimneyRockCombo4Web.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Chimney Rock\" height=\"300\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 300px\" title=\"Chimney Rock\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The drive through Wolf Creek Pass is gorgeous &#8211; a long pull up but beautiful out the window.\u00a0 There is a wonderful rest area at the summit &#8211; there was snow!\u00a0 Got out for a long walk with Karl and allow trans to cool (high trans temp warning about .5 miles from the summit) &#8211; easy down to South Fork.\u00a0 The other direction (east to west) would be tougher down &#8211; more curves and grade.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf Creek Pass Summit<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/SFSummitWolfCreekPass350179.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"WCP Summit\" height=\"179\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 179px\" title=\"WCP Summit\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/SFKarlSnowWCPSummit250183.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl in the Snow\" height=\"183\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 183px\" title=\"Karl in the Snow\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to my folks &#8211; South Fork, CO &#8211; close to being ready and expect to roll by 11:30.\u00a0 Already above 80 here in Mesa Verde &#8211; I&#8217;m still struggling with voice and throat closing at night so headed for my Mama&#8217;s house and a bit of pampering &#8211; plus cooler temps and maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22559,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/22559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}