{"id":2184,"date":"2011-04-28T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T23:28:55","slug":"celebrating-an-anniversary-and-growing-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/celebrating-an-anniversary-and-growing-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating an Anniversary and Growing Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheIt almost slipped by me that this blog just reached its fifth anniversary. It was April 8, 2006 when I first posted Passes and Canyons Enters the Blogosphere<\/a>. That’s pretty amazing, at least it is to me.<\/p>\n

I’ll come back to that in a moment but I also want to pass this bit of news along. I was contacted recently by Lenore Bates of the Colorado Dept. of Transportation asking if I would include a link from my Great Roads<\/a> page to their site where they have some good information on Colorado’s scenic and historic byways<\/a>. I said sure, you bet, and gosh, it would sure be nice if you could link to my site from yours as well.<\/p>\n

Well, sure enough, she did and now the CDOT website is directing people to Passes and Canyons as a resource for people looking for information on scenic roads<\/a> in the state. That’s pretty much guaranteed to boost traffic on the site a bit. Thank you CDOT.<\/p>\n

So back to the blog. It’s not like I started out with a lot of energy. I was still building the Passes and Canyons<\/a> website and figured I ought to include a blog but I really didn’t feel I had much to say. In fact, for the rest of 2006 I only managed to post to the blog once, twice, or three times a month, and didn’t post anything at all in November. I had had the same experience as a newspaper editor. I occasionally ran personal columns but only when I was really driven to say something, which wasn’t often.<\/p>\n

Finally I got serious about it and told myself I had to post three times a week. I had to! And an amazing thing happened. I opened my eyes and looked at everything from the perspective of whether it could be a blog post and suddenly I was flooded with ideas. Then I started writing for other publications as well, until I concluded I had to cut back on the blog to twice a week because I was just too busy elsewhere. That’s where we stand today and I have no intention of cutting back any further, no matter how busy I get doing other things.<\/p>\n

So thanks for helping make this website and blog the successes that they are. I look forward to continuing with them for many years to come.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

The older I get–the bigger my rear sprocket gets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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