{"id":1713,"date":"2014-12-24T21:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:01:09","slug":"blogger-happy-hour-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/blogger-happy-hour-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Happy Hour Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 4:30 today, I headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contessajewall.com\/\">Contessa and Colin<\/a>&#8216;s for a happy hour gathering with fellow RVers <a href=\"http:\/\/livingboondockingmexico.blogspot.ca\/\">Chris and Juan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelwithkevinandruth.com\/\">Kevin and Ruth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know of Chris and Juan through <a href=\"http:\/\/croftsmexico.blogspot.ca\/\">Croft<\/a> and fellow former Ottawans Kevin and Ruth have been following me since even before I got on the road. But here&#8217;s the kicker. The five of us met here in Mazatl\u00e1n tonight, but Kevin and Ruth spent the summer just a few hours northwest of me in Saskatchewan and Chris and Juan pretty much drove right by Haven heading for the border after visiting Kevin and Ruth!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m telling you, the continent&#8217;s small and all roads eventually merge! I&#8217;m pretty sure the only (formerly) RVing bloggers I have left to meet are Sean and Louise from <a href=\"http:\/\/ourodyssey.blogspot.com\/\">Our Odyssey<\/a>! It was lovely to get to match voices to writing styles and faces.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, we had a nice time eating munchies and watching the big cruise ships sail out of port at sunset. Talking about RVing again was great, making me realise just how much I&#8217;m missing the lifestyle!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0368.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0368-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0368\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0368-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0368-619x464.jpg 619w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0368.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 4:30 today, I headed over to Contessa and Colin&#8216;s for a happy hour gathering with fellow RVers Chris and Juan and Kevin and Ruth. I know of Chris and Juan through Croft and fellow former Ottawans Kevin and Ruth have been following me since even before I got on the road. But here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,815,14,635,5,814,3],"tags":[731],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-rving","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-beaches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}