{"id":5110,"date":"2025-09-05T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:16:13","slug":"day-9-heading-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5110","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: Heading East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\">Yesterday we woke up in a stunning location, today we woke up in a carpark. It\u2019s just the way it goes sometimes. And it was raining. So we headed to the historic town of Salida to have a look around, and hopefully find somewhere nice for a typical American breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">We wandered the streets, and while it was a nice town with quirky shops, it was very damp and rainy. We tried to find somewhere for breakfast, but we failed. Then I saw a diner on the outskirts of town, and we thought, perfect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">We had a typical American breakfast of biscuits and gravy with a side of bacon, and a pot of coffee. All of it was delicious. It was still raining by the time we finished, so we had a little afternoon nap in the van. By the time we woke up, the rain had cleared and we moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove through a gorgeous gorge on our way to canon city. There were a few nice spots to stop and camp beside the Arkansas river, but unfortunately they were also close to the busy road. So we kept on driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">We struggled to find somewhere to camp, so we ended up at a state park overlooking the water. It was really nice, with power, flush toilets,&nbsp; and showers, so we were able to have our first shower of the trip (since our hotel in Vegas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we woke up in a stunning location, today we woke up in a carpark. It\u2019s just the way it goes sometimes. And it was raining. So we headed to the historic town of Salida to have a look around, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-1kq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5111,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}