{"id":2224,"date":"2017-02-10T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2019-01-23T06:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:52:18","slug":"so-may-friends-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"So Many Friends, So Little Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doug and Jan Cowan with Charlotte. Jeeping in Colorado, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>I\u2019m not an RVer, but, for those of you who are, I think I get it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only the wanderlust or the nice rigs (nicer than the hotels I visit). I\u2019m betting the greatest appeal is the camaraderie. When I happen on a group of you at a campsite, I hear the same story. You\u2019ve been doing this\u2014with the same people\u2014for years.<\/p>\n

Makes sense to me. The pleasure of visiting places increases exponentially with the number of good friends who join you. Which brings me to maybe my biggest group of friends.<\/p>\n

Trip friends.<\/p>\n

Charlotte and I have Santa Fe friends and Ouray, Colorado friends and simply road-trip friends (where the destination doesn\u2019t really matter).<\/p>\n

For 20 years or so, I\u2019ve had cycling buddies; mostly we\u2019ve ridden mountain bikes along the Caprock Canyon Trail outside of Quitaque, but I\u2019ve also done some road-bike trips\u2014the longest from El Paso to Canyon (was fun\u2014once).<\/p>\n

For the last 10 years, I\u2019ve done more peak-climbing with friends. Real peak climbers call what we do \u201cwalk-ups.\u201d <\/p>\n

They\u2019re right of course, but walking at 13,000\u2019 doesn\u2019t feel like walking.<\/p>\n

And we end up with good stories, which is part of the fun\u2014sharing the adventure, sometimes years later, around food and drink where tales grow bigger with each retelling.<\/p>\n

In a perfect world, I\u2019d have a couple of road trips with friends each month\u2014with several week-long adventures over the summer. <\/p>\n

So many friends. So little time.
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\nHere\u2019s a clip of Sunday school friends <\/a>making their first trip up Wheeler Peak. We\u2019re going again this summer. Any takers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not an RVer, but, for those of you who are, I think I get it. It\u2019s not only the wanderlust or the nice rigs (nicer than the hotels I visit). I\u2019m betting the greatest appeal is the camaraderie. When I happen on a group of you at a campsite, I hear the same story. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}