{"id":1109,"date":"2012-09-17T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:10:43","slug":"september-17-20-colorado-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/17\/september-17-20-colorado-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"September 17 – 20: Colorado Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Colorado<\/a>
Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mile 8852 – Colorado Springs<\/strong> (local miles since September 16).\u00a0 Monday we visited the site of the house where P.J’s mother used to live before she passed away.\u00a0 The Waldo Canyon fire of this past June has completely destroyed it, nothing left but a foundation and, surprisingly, a scorched tree at the driveway.\u00a0 P.J. took pictures.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u00a0afternoon I went on a hike with Johanne Guenette who, while I’m in the Springs,\u00a0I can always count on\u00a0as hiking companion and for good conversation over good food (until they sometimes chase us out of a restaurant).\u00a0 We went up the Pancake Rocks trail, on the back-side of Pikes Peak.\u00a0 It goes up to 11,100 feet.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day.\u00a0 The Aspens were starting their fall-bloom, but were not yet in full bloom.<\/p>\n

Otherwise we did more laundry, read more mail forwarded from home, handled more administration, all\u00a0while enjoying the hospitality and home\u00a0cooking of the Gardner gang (P.J’s brother, Dave, and sister in law, Karen, and their daughter’s family and the grandchildren).\u00a0\u00a0And a little more hiking for me.\u00a0 Colorado Springs is a city with many parks that offer good hiking opportunities.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
P.J.’s Brother’s House in Colorado Springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mile 8852 – Colorado Springs (local miles since September 16).\u00a0 Monday we visited the site of the house where P.J’s mother used to live before she passed away.\u00a0 The Waldo Canyon fire of this past June has completely destroyed it, nothing left but a foundation and, surprisingly, a scorched tree at the driveway.\u00a0 P.J. took … Continue reading “September 17 – 20: Colorado Springs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}