{"id":1191,"date":"2012-08-18T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T23:18:02","slug":"day-10-steamboat-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2012\/08\/18\/day-10-steamboat-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 49 – Steamboat Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Day 49 – Steamboat Springs<\/h2><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

August 10, 2012

Start: Brush Mtn Ranch
Finish: Steamboat Springs, CO

Today\u2019s miles: 52.9
Total miles: 1570.8

Splats: 0
Divide crossings: 0; 15 total<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada –> Mexico!<\/span><\/div>
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I enjoyed coffee and a sandwich for breakfast today. Kirsten even made me a sandwich for the road. I was very happy to have it when I stopped for a break at the top of today\u2019s long climb. From there, it was mostly downhill to Steamboat Springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way down, I stopped at the Clark Store for some ice cream and coffee. From there, it was a scary 15 miles into town. The road was winding and busy, usually with no shoulder. I think I spent about 70% of the time looking backward via my mirror. When I arrived in town and hopped off the uni, my hands were shaking after 2 hours of trying to be \u2018super aware.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once in town, I found myself at the bike shop, then walked down the main street to find dinner. As I waited for a pizza, I called John and left a message to say that I\u2019d made it into town and would try to find his place after dinner. I finished eating, got caught in a downpour, then headed to John\u2019s place. I found it, but no one answered the door, and I didn\u2019t feel comfortable pitching my tent with neighbors peeking through the curtains (not really) at the weirdo on a wheel in the cul-de-sac. I returned to the bike path that winds through town and continued riding it while looking for inconspicuous places to camp. I also stopped at hotels to check for vacancies, but every place was booked. I found a spot between the bike path, river, and railroad tracks that I thought might work, but by this point, it was getting pretty dark, and it was hard to tell if I was really out of sight. It was also in wet, tall grass, and pointy things were sticking out of the ground. I decided to try calling a few more places and eventually found the Bunkhouse Lodge with one room still available. I headed that way, but for the life of me, I could not find the place, even with my GPS navigation. I called back to discover that they had changed their name, and I\u2019d been riding back and forth through their parking lot. I\u2019m feeling very comfortable under the cover of a roof tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I enjoyed coffee and a sandwich for breakfast today. Kirsten even made me a sandwich for the road. I was very happy to have it when I stopped for a break at the top of today\u2019s long climb. From there, it was mostly downhill to Steamboat Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}