{"id":406,"date":"2016-10-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2022-02-22T20:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T04:42:51","slug":"fort-collins-and-the-nielsen-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Fort Collins and the Nielsen Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed with good friends Dave and Kathy in Ft. Collins, CO. during the weekend of&nbsp; Sept. 30-Oct. 2.&nbsp; Arriving on Thursday, we parked the trailer on their side yard and enjoyed a few days of living in a house, talking of life, and catching up on family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-416\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave-783x800.jpg\" alt=\"ted-sue-kathy-dave\" width=\"783\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave-783x800.jpg 783w, https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave-600x613.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ted-Sue-Kathy-Dave.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave and Ted took a 20 mile bicycle ride on the beautiful Poudre River trail while Sue photographed an event, Laps for Laurel, at the school where Kathy teaches.&nbsp; Then on Saturday, Sue and Kathy enjoyed a pedicure while Dave and Ted visited the microbrewery, Zwei.&nbsp; We had a nice meal in downtown at Salsa Brava one night, and had a great pizza at Grimaldi&#8217;s another evening.&nbsp; But the best part of our time together was spending a lot of time on their front yard patio&#8230; mornings with coffee&#8230; and evenings with wine.<\/p>\n<p>We worshiped together at the Faith E-Free Church on Sunday morning.&nbsp; Dave played bass on this Sunday.&nbsp; The sermon was about belonging to church, and was one of the best on that subject that I&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>This is the half-way point in our trip! On Monday we leave for Golden, CO, to have dinner with Timothy and Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed with good friends Dave and Kathy in Ft. Collins, CO. during the weekend of&nbsp; Sept. 30-Oct. 2.&nbsp; Arriving on Thursday, we parked the trailer on their side yard and enjoyed a few days of living in a house, talking of life, and catching up on family. Dave and Ted took a 20 mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,101,95],"tags":[102,16,45,56,54],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-94","category-colorado","category-western-us","tag-102","tag-bicycling","tag-colorado","tag-ft-collins","tag-nielsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.thisnextchapter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}