{"id":2642,"date":"2019-03-11T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"denver-tucson-denver-feb-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Denver-Tucson-Denver, Feb-March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sprinted from Madison to Boulder in one long day.\u00a0 Stayed with Skovrons for 3 nights, then bolted for Tucson.\u00a0 Made it to Albuquerque the first night. Made a lucky find late at night, a hopping brew pub with good food.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, we took I-40 west, then a wandering route through very mountainous territory on Hwy 77\/60 in AZ, starting at Holbrook, wending our way through Snowflake, Show Low and Globe, on the way to Oracle. The most direct route, but slow going.<\/p>\n<p>Stayed 3 nights with Keith and Corine, played some p-ball, hiked, golfed, road bikes.\u00a0 This neatly sums up what we did over and over for the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, a cute Airbnb casita in Tucson, for 4 nights.\u00a0 Visited with Steve and Wendy, lately of Colo Spgs, and Dave and Nancy, of Missoula.\u00a0 Rode our bikes on the Loop trails, hiked.<\/p>\n<p>Last stop &#8211; the Birds, of Lafayette.\u00a0 New house near Dove Mountain.\u00a0 Stayed there 3 days.\u00a0 Golf, pickleball, hiking.<\/p>\n<p>One day drive from Tucson to Denver.\u00a0 Went I-10 east to I-25.\u00a0 Routine drive, but long (900 miles).<\/p>\n<p>Made it in good time for the Jeremy and Amanda Gardner wedding. Cast of hundreds, lots of family on multiple sides, a party that lasted four days.<\/p>\n<p>Photos and one video can be seen below.\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"\">These links should<\/span>\u00a0bring you to a \u201clightbox\u201d view of all the photos in a gallery.\u00a0Clicking on any thumbnail gets you a larger single view. \u00a0You can then arrow\u00a0left and right, or use the on-screen arrows to go left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Hit &lt;esc&gt; to go back to the lightbox view at any time.\u00a0 Close the tab when you&#8217;re done viewing, and you&#8217;re back to this page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2019\/03-Arizona\/Ora-Airbnb-Birds\/n-NncDK5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallery #1 is here.<\/a>\u00a0 Oracle, Airbnb, Bird House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2019\/03-Arizona\/DesertHike\/n-dTZjJT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallery #2 is here.<\/a> Desert Hiking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2019\/03-Arizona\/GardnerWedding\/n-xrFVcP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallery #3 is here.<\/a> Gardner wedding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprinted from Madison to Boulder in one long day.\u00a0 Stayed with Skovrons for 3 nights, then bolted for Tucson.\u00a0 Made it to Albuquerque the first night. Made a lucky find late at night, a hopping brew pub with good food. The next day, we took I-40 west, then a wandering route through very mountainous territory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Denver-Tucson-Denver, Feb-March 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,4,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado","category-photo","category-uncategorized","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}