Denver OwesThe Charmer (Under Me)

So we're 60 miles out of Denver, walking for six months. And my flight to Denver tomorrow will take roughly two and a half hours. So we've come to the conclusion that planes are, like, smart or something. That's still not the point of this project. The point of me mentioning this is because we're going to barely miss a strange phenomenon, which would be for me to actually arrive in Denver the moment my pedometer says i've reached Denver, and to actually walk a block or two IN the position that i would have been in were i walking the last six months instead of farting around San Francisco. Does this make sense? It seems like the more i try to explain things like this to people the less they want to be my friend.

I got this image after google image searching "not my friend." i'm obviously lacking material. and this drunk angel is obviously my friend. i wanted to find something from silverthorne, since thats where we are today, but there arent any pictures of the Wendy's there, and that's really the only place i've ever peed, built snowmen, or divorced my wives there. i mean divorced my drunk angels. i mean i'm going to bed.

Three Day's Distance: 21.64 miles

Total Distance Covered: 890.72 miles

Silverthorne, Colorado

What Happens When Your Middle School Pictures are Available On Google Images

We're blowing through hometowns like Kenny Loggins' latest tour these days, and today we find ourselves exiting the great Steamboat Springs, home of the rabbit ears motel, samoan lifeguards, and kids like this:
far better looking than the Ouray kids, arent they? I would agree. If you want to pay upwards of eighty bucks for a day on the mountain, Steamboat Springs is arguably some of the best snow in Colorado. The term "champagne powder," which i find incredibly pretentious, has been coined and now copywrited, so you probably cant even say it on your website. crap. The natural hotsprings sounded like the chugging of a steamboat to early settlers in 1908, so they went ahead and blasted the area with dynamite to build a railroad through it, and thereby "silenced the springs" forevermore. However, you can still sneak into the hot springs up the road so long as you don't get caught hiding in a snowbank by the ranger with a flashlight at two in the morning. Now that's embarassing.

Chug-a-Lug: 29.88 miles

Total Distance Covered: 869.08 miles

Leaving Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Via Con Dios

I'm telling you, this lost bus pass is making me work.. we're averaging nine miles a day since since i lost that stupid slip of paper, and march is yet a week away. savage!

I tell you, it's hard to find time for pushups, but this guy inspires me. at least way more than this savage does: this savage inspires me to play more sonic the hedgehog and eat hotdogs raw out of the indredibly condensated hot dog wrapper that should probably be inside of a plastic bag but isnt inside of a plastic bag because i just folded it over and hoped they wouldnt go bad.


Four Days Deliberation: 32.84 miles

Total Distance Covered: 839.20 miles

Approaching Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Five Months to Ouray

Among the records notched this week in walking:

*forty miles in four days, see: work

*average of 7.0 miles a day or higher
for entire week, see: work

*one lost bus pass, valued at 45$ see: idiot


Speaking of idiots, we're in Ouray Colorado today! A sparklin little gem of a classic mining town, Ouray is billed as the "Switzerland of America" for its majestic snow-loaded cliffs, ice-climbing, and white people galore. It's just a wonder to me that a town with scenery like this:

can produce citizens like THIS:

But that's what life is all about, isn't it? Miracles. In more interesting news, i might actually resume my footsteps for a brief five days, as i approach Denver, Colorado. A five day stint in the snowland will almost sync up perfectly to where i'd be had i walked right there. Purposeful ambiguity for now. Facts later.


Its Been a Long Week: 53.71 miles

Total Distance Covered: 806.36 miles

Ouray, Colorado

Welcome to Colorado!

Here we are, on the western slope of Colorado. I've looked forward to this milestone for some time now, passing through some old homelands and territory with a little more to offer the eye. Here it's the first week of February and i've been walking for over five months. Basically i have a new appreciation for the two hour flight from San Francisco to Denver.

We're in Grand Junction now, 15th most populous city in the state of Colorado, and home to a lot of Wendy's. I checked out the local paper, the Sentinel, for the latest news on the region. Here's the image from todays front page:

A woman surrendered to law enforcement this morning after barricading herself in a trailer for nearly two hours at Grand River Mobile Home Park

There are a lot of things i like about this photograph, but i have friends from GJ that might actually one day fall upon my website and read this, and i'd rather just present the materials and let you interpret them, like Fox News would if they weren't huge liar-farts.

February Miles: 39.07 miles

Total Distance Covered: 752.65 miles

Grand Junction, Colorado