{"id":332,"date":"2021-07-02T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/?p=332"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:10:34","slug":"buena-vista-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/2021\/07\/02\/buena-vista-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Buena Vista or Bust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.peakhomesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/buena-vista.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Mountain Towns Close to Colorado Springs - Monica Shea\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Definitely a perk of living in Colorado &#8212; having such beautiful places to visit!<\/p>\n<p>This weekend we are heading out with Bojack to Buena Vista*, Colorado, a town near the headwaters of the Arkansas River.<\/p>\n<p><em>*It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;Bew-nuh Vista&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/buenavistacolorado.org\/history\/\">but this history lesson may provide a little insight<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have reservations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mtprincetonrvpark.com\/\">Mt. Princeton RV Park<\/a>, which has a lovely view of Mt. Princeton itself, but isn&#8217;t super close the other famous attraction with &#8220;Mt. Princeton&#8221; in the name: <a href=\"https:\/\/mtprinceton.com\/\">the hot springs<\/a>, which we may visit this weekend. The RV park has very high reviews, but we were a little stunned at some of the policies. For example, there&#8217;s a limit of one dog per reserved site. Also, they are quite strict about not arriving after 6pm, they don&#8217;t want folks trying to set up camp late at night, waking up neighbors. We hadn&#8217;t experienced either of these policies before.<\/p>\n<p>In an hour or so Dave and I will go get Bojack from storage, to load up and head out around lunchtime. He went out there a couple times earlier this week to do system checks and fix the carbon monoxide detector (it was factory-original: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvhabit.com\/post\/replacing-the-hardwired-rv-lp-gas-co-detector\">it was time to replace it<\/a> since Bojack is now 5 years old).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll write for now&#8230;.you&#8217;ll hear more from me after the trip&#8230;maybe during? I don&#8217;t know! Ta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely a perk of living in Colorado &#8212; having such beautiful places to visit! This weekend we are heading out with Bojack to Buena Vista*, Colorado, a town near the headwaters of the Arkansas River. *It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;Bew-nuh Vista&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230;.but this history lesson may provide a little insight. We have reservations at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/2021\/07\/02\/buena-vista-or-bust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buena Vista or Bust!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}