{"id":563,"date":"1988-07-29T14:07:00","date_gmt":"1988-07-29T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=563"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:11:00","slug":"pueblo-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/pueblo-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Pueblo, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The complimentary continental breakfast the next morning included OJ, coffee, tea, grapefruit, cantaloupe, croissants, donuts, and danishes. I had quite enough calories to start me on the road to Pueblo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Dining room at the St. Cloud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dipping roller-coaster almost all the way to Pueblo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I noticed that the dry hills were loaded with fat locusts. One would not starve in that country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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This gourd-like plant seemed to tolerate the dry shoulders of the road. Maybe the locusts ate it? Google Lens says its Buffalo Gourd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I took a picture of what I thought was Blueberry bushes, but Google now says that it’s Oregon Grape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pueblo was an interesting spot. It was one of the largest cities that I visited, but was still a friendly town. Probably that was because Pueblo was in the middle of nowhere. Still, it was near the middle of the nation, which was probably why it had grown so large.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Even in 1988, this was cheap. Soda from a machine was 35 cents in the San Francisco Bay Area about the time I graduated, which was 7 years earlier. And considering 1980’s inflation…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whenever I hit a large city, there were specific errands to be run. I got money from the Cirrus machine. I visited AAA and got three maps – Kansas, Missouri, and Pueblo. I visited a bike shop and picked up a tube and some patches. And, I went to the post office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had never seen a post office as large as the one in Pueblo. It was several stories. I picked up a general delivery letter from Merrianne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also visited the US. Government bookstore, and had two books mailed back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Furr’s cafeteria that night, I ate all I could for $4.79. It was better food than I was used to at King’s Table in Sunnyvale, and Furr’s served it customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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For a mere $7.50, I was able to stay in a dorm room at USC, the University of Southern Colorado. Beautiful accommodations. It was boring, though, as there were no students around. The showers in the place were a blast — literally. There was no concept of water conservation in that town.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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University of Southern Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The dorm room I stayed in was very similar to mine in college, except that these floors were carpeted. It was eerily quiet, as there was almost no one else in the building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The complimentary continental breakfast the next morning included OJ, coffee, tea, grapefruit, cantaloupe, croissants, donuts, and danishes. I had quite enough calories to start me on the road to Pueblo. I noticed that the dry hills were loaded with fat locusts. One would not starve in that country. Pueblo was an interesting spot. It was … Continue reading Pueblo, CO<\/span> →<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}