Welcome to the blog site for The Historic Riverside Hotel, located on the banks of the Colorado River in Hot Sulphur Springs, Co. This site will be an attempt to chronicle the SUR-REALITY that is now our daily existence - the good, the bad and the Boulder. This won't be a daily diary, rather, it will be a snapshot of significant events, memorable characters, historical footnotes and random happenings as we live our dream/nightmare as innkeepers in the wilds of Colorado.
For those who have stumbled on to this site who don't fall into the category of friends and family who already know the story, a little background. In December of 2007, my wife Julie and I purchased The Riverside, a 106-year old hotel, bar and restaurant located in the tiny town of Hot Sulphur Springs - smack in the middle of Middle Park, Grand County, CO. We quit good jobs, left behind family and friends in our lifelong home of Kansas City and moved into a slightly dilapidated, possibly haunted 16 room hotel with a 42-seat restaurant and an ornately carved wooden bar, complete with a brass foot rail - but no spittoon. We counted on our lives changing; we didn't count on the possibility of the worst economy in the last four billion years!, or our house in Kansas City sitting unsold a year into this deal, or our being unable to find sober help for any task in Grand County, or the myraid of other surprises that greet us on an almost daily basis.
So check in occasionaly to see what's happening and find out who's visiting as you join us in the experience of Living Life Riverside.
For those who have stumbled on to this site who don't fall into the category of friends and family who already know the story, a little background. In December of 2007, my wife Julie and I purchased The Riverside, a 106-year old hotel, bar and restaurant located in the tiny town of Hot Sulphur Springs - smack in the middle of Middle Park, Grand County, CO. We quit good jobs, left behind family and friends in our lifelong home of Kansas City and moved into a slightly dilapidated, possibly haunted 16 room hotel with a 42-seat restaurant and an ornately carved wooden bar, complete with a brass foot rail - but no spittoon. We counted on our lives changing; we didn't count on the possibility of the worst economy in the last four billion years!, or our house in Kansas City sitting unsold a year into this deal, or our being unable to find sober help for any task in Grand County, or the myraid of other surprises that greet us on an almost daily basis.
So check in occasionaly to see what's happening and find out who's visiting as you join us in the experience of Living Life Riverside.
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