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Gray’s Coors Tavern – Pueblo, Colorado

Gil Garduno — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:48:01 +0000

Dante Alighieri’s classic poem “A Divine Comedy” recounts a spiritual journey in which the author was guided by ancient Roman poet Virgil through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Their path takes them through the nine circles of Hell where they witness the punishments suffered for all eternity by the souls of deceased sinners. The deepest circle of Hell, where Satan resides, is reserved for history’s worst traitors–Judas Iscariot, Brutus, Cassius…and maybe a certain New Mexico food blogger who not only admits there is wonderful green chile to be found outside the paradise that is the Land of Enchantment; he believes it’s possibly just as good, even better than some New Mexico chile. That chile, from Pueblo, Colorado isn’t just an “it’ll…

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The Rock Inn Mountain Tavern – Estes Park, Colorado

Gil Garduno — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:01:47 +0000

During my years at St. Anthony’s in Peñasco, I frequently tried the patience of the saintly nuns. Thankfully capital punishment was not permissible or you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s bad enough I wore out a few rulers and hopefully one elderly nun’s knuckles which often found their way to my head (that may explain a few things). I wasn’t a malicious student, just one who didn’t always conform. It wasn’t the age of “doing your own thing” though I certainly did my best to be an individual. Albeit, I was an individual who didn’t do his homework or study for tests (but still managed to ace them all). My antics were never deliberately destructive. In some ways I…

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The Post Chicken & Beer – Estes Park, Colorado

Gil Garduno — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:01:56 +0000

In 1974 prolific author Stephen King and his wife Tabitha spent a night in Room 217 of The Stanley, a a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. The hotel staff was preparing to close the hotel for the season so the Kings found themselves the only guests in the place. King wrote about the experience on his website: “Wandering through its corridors, I thought that it seemed the perfect—maybe the archetypical—setting for a ghost story. That night I dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a fire-hose. I woke up with a tremendous…

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