Now I will admit I have the pleasure of meeting many vacationers during the warm season here in Colorado. My ColoradoGuy.com web site garners a large amount of traffic on a daily basis, and it seems especially liked by folks who live in just awful places like Indiana, Oklahoma and even Michigan who long to live where there are beautiful mountains, wide open spaces and stunning scenery. For awhile, I hosted a meeting of regular visitors on my forums known as the Colorado Guy Festival. (2006 was the largest:
http://coloradoguy.com/colorado-guy-festival.htm)
So yesterday seemed like no big deal. Michael built some rapport with me via e-mail over the past few months and was finally here. The special thing was, the Bauers, a family of three, were insanely enthusiastic about my web site. I met at their cabin rental and they had all sorts of questions that showed they practically viewed every page on my site. They even asked for details about the dreaded incident in 2002 when
I asked a girl out and got rejected in front of everyone. :(
Anyway, I understand people might look up to me, maybe admire me or appreciate my hard work in
making fun of myself, showing the
beauty of Colorado and giving someone a reason to procrastinate at work by surfing my web sites. That's fine ... but these people treated me like a freakin' celebrity. Michael (the father) compared meeting with me to the time he got Kevin Costner's autograph.
And he was serious!!! 
Below are some of his pictures he included in a mass e-mail and his text. Do watch the YouTube video clip I made of our lunch! :)
(After he took the photo of me sipping coffee with my ratty bedhead hair, he said he was going to frame it and put it in his living room!)
The e-mail titled "Colorado, September 23, CELEBRITY CONTACT!!!" below...
We were fortunate enough to have met up with the biggest celebrity on either side of the continental divide, even bigger than Kevin Costner!!!
His name is Steve Garufi, a.k.a. "The Colorado Guy". Here is a link to his website...
http://www.stevegarufi.com/ Click on that link to find a video clip of our lunch with him. Also, click on the "Altitude Snob" link, where
you'll find us waaaay down on the list. You have to be a friend, family member, or an acquaintance of the Colorado Guy to make this list. I'd like to think we made it as friends!!! The Colorado Guy is AWESOME!!!
Attached are some photos of our brush with a famous person.
Here is the world's famous Colorado Guy standing outside of our cabin. We were too much in awe to think to get a picture of him as he sat and chatted with us INSIDE the cabin like a regular person!! He even posed with us and let me put my arm around him like it was nothing!! He said, "follow me to my house and I'll give you some bumper stickers". Can you believe that?? Josh and the Colorado Guy hang out in front of Colorado Guy's 1964 Cadillac. He's talking to me while he eats lunch. I couldn't believe it was really happening!!! Josh stands near the Colorado Guy while the Colorado Guy works his magic with his camera. All too soon, our time was over. Molly gives Colorado Guy a good bye hug.
(End of e-mail)
Here's the video clip I made with them! :)
So am I a celebrity? Definitely not, but hey, it was fun to be treated like one for a few hours!
-Steve