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River Rafting!
Day: 50
Date: 20.06.2022
CDT Mile: Mile 1'060.5
Miles hiked: 0 miles / 0 km
Camping at: Motel in Salida
We got up, got the bikes and drove to McDonald's to get a quick breakfast before we meet at the rafting place at 8am. Today we're going whitewater river rafting! Patches has organized that a while ago. The sun was out and it's gonna be a fab day. We took the bikes and drove to the rafting place. As I am Mr. Freeze, I got a full body weatsuit🤣 And a kids helmet for my small head🤣🙈! And off we go. It was a beautiful 45 minutes drive thru the valley. River rafting in the Arkansas river, one of the most popular rafting rivers in the world, was a lot of fun and we all got very wet! It was a great time to get away from trail life too. Normally if we are in town, we have so many chores to do in a short time so we can go back on trail as soon as possible, that we never really have a break from trail. But with river rafting we entered a complete different 'life', talking to the guides and enjoying our time on water, that it was an fantastic break from trail. It was a blast! We gotta do something similar again soon! My clothes being wet now, we drive back to the hotel and jump in the hit tub to warm up. I only have one pair of underwear, one bra, one T-shirt and one shorts with me. While in the hot tub with my underwear as a bikini, my shirt and pants were drying in the sun🤣
Getting hungry, we took the bikes to the Salida old town center. Salida is a very cool town. The town center is very cute with many shops and restaurants. The town is very outdoorsy and I noticed that in Colorado mostly everyone is sporty, a hipster and healthy. I don't see heavy people at all. In Salida I see many people driving a bike around town, something I didn't see often in other towns in the US. Normally everyone drives big cars. I like the vibe of this town. In the river which leds trough the center of Salida kids are swimming, adults are floating trough the river rapids with life jackets, others are driving down boats or kayaks trough the slalom poles or just sitting at a restaurant or bar next to the river watching that spectacle. People drive their mountain bikes around, are jogging or skateboarding. We have a great time in town and after a huge salad and an apparently very italian desert - cannoli (a fried pastry roll filled with mascarpone and chocolate chips, very healthy and not heavy at all!😁), we also spoil ourselves with a massive ice cream shake! Ah that's life! And we don't even have to bother about the calories, we will burn them all the next day again😁
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