{"id":6112,"date":"2026-07-20T06:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:11:37","slug":"america-the-beautiful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/?p=6112","title":{"rendered":"America, The beautiful – 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Started off with Dinosaur national monument<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decided to camp, but since the brewery doesn’t offer to-go so I had a pint in town<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Museum in town<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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got a water front site<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It became my last camp night. I think camping in a conversative part of the state where all the unfriendly white guys next to me and partying all night had an impact. I think also perhaps I was tired of tent camping, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Next day stop by a Botanical Gardens in Steamboats Springs, CO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s a wedding there that day weirdly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decided to do a Alpine hike to to experience the rockies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that, stopped by a small museum in a mining town called Hot Sulphur Springs (it does have a Hot Springs in town. can’t be more creative in naming its town)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entered Rock Mountain NP from its west gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The deer population seem to be much better behaved in the Rockies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apline flowers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to settle in Boulder. A lot of driving that day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lovely hotel staff told me to park on street to save $$$, very sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Morning ride to downtown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was insanely busy, drained my energy a bit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decided to bail on the canyon hike but to get happy hours early<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 4<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hotel breakfast was pretty good, though I don’t really eat breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Headed to Boulder’s Flatirons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then it’s the Mineral Museum in Golden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the amphitheater<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A bit happy hour after<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stayed in the outskirt of Denver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 5<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Decided to take train to Downtown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World Cup was still going on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Took train back and going towards the wildness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driving towards Mt. Bluesky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stayed at Summit county – A hostel in Silverthorne. It’s just amazing how much city of 4k pop has to offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 6<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Just two relaxing bike days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course some exotic German Sausages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 7<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Expenses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Week 66<\/td>Currency:<\/td>USD<\/td>1<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Day<\/td>Food&Drink<\/td>Lodging<\/td>Transportation<\/td>Other (tickets\/tours etc)<\/td>Day total<\/td>Country<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>$16.16<\/td>$48.00<\/td>$46.14<\/td>$0.00<\/td>$110.30<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>$15.19<\/td>$204.00<\/td>$100.61<\/td>$36.00<\/td>$355.80<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>$47.88<\/td>$204.00<\/td>$66.39<\/td>$0.00<\/td>$318.27<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>$0.00<\/td>$240.00<\/td>$54.54<\/td>$0.00<\/td>$294.54<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>$89.40<\/td>$30.03<\/td>$77.88<\/td>$22.00<\/td>$219.31<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>$72.92<\/td>$30.03<\/td>$48.89<\/td>$0.00<\/td>$151.84<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>$73.40<\/td>$92.38<\/td>$46.14<\/td>$0.00<\/td>$211.92<\/td>USA<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>$314.95<\/td>$848.44<\/td>$440.59<\/td>$58.00<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Total<\/td><\/td>Grand Total:<\/td>$1,661.98<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

about $200 a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 1 Started off with Dinosaur national monument Decided to camp, but since the brewery doesn’t offer to-go so I had a pint in town Museum in town got a water front site It became my last camp night. I think camping in a conversative part of the state where all the unfriendly white guys… Continue reading America, The beautiful – 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buyuchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}