{"id":21703,"date":"2009-12-02T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2016-09-12T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:27:08","slug":"travels-without-miranda-4-windy-peak-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/travels-without-miranda-4-windy-peak-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels Without Miranda, #4: Bailey and Windy Peak, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How I came to Colorado with a friend to represent Canada at an environmental youth summit is a rather long story featuring a famous anthropologist. Suffice it to say that it was the opportunity of a lifetime, one I had been told I would have to miss because there was no way I could come up with the necessary funds for the flight in the time I had. Readers of this blog should know by now that the best way to get me to do something is to tell me I can&#8217;t. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This trip happened the fall after I finished high school; I was seventeen. I squirreled away the prize monies I&#8217;d won upon graduation, including the $300 award for creative writing that I had no doubt would be mine, and worked all summer. It had been a very difficult September and this trip couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time. It was to be the first major life-changing trip of my life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3400\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3400\" title=\"bailey\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bailey.jpg\" alt=\"the Farmer's Union outside of Bailey, where we spent the first half of our Colorado adventure (http:\/\/nfu.org\/about\/education\/education-center)\" width=\"150\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bailey.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bailey-101x300.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Farmer&#8217;s Union outside of Bailey, where we spent the first half of our Colorado adventure (http:\/\/nfu.org\/about\/education\/education-center)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The five day adventure featured many challenges to surmount, one of which was standing before a crowd of thirty, including my hero, and talking about my accomplishments in the environmental field.<\/p>\n<p>I was so scared; others had surely done bigger and greater things than I had. My accomplishments would seem insignificant when compared to that of the others. Surely, I had nothing to teach and I would be ridiculed for thinking that I had made any difference at all. To my surprise, the response to my speech was positive and I saw my hero glow with pride. She made it clear to me that I had something to give to the world and that I could be an inspiration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3401\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3401\" title=\"windy peak\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/windy-peak.jpg\" alt=\"Windy Peak outdoor school, a day's hike from the Farmer's Union, where we spent the second half of our trip\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/windy-peak.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/windy-peak-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windy Peak outdoor school, a day&#8217;s hike from the Farmer&#8217;s Union, where we spent the second half of our trip<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Had that moment fallen flat, I might never have had the courage or self-assurance to blog about my life on the road, much less to publish my ebook\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1109\">Sorting It Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I came to Colorado with a friend to represent Canada at an environmental youth summit is a rather long story featuring a famous anthropologist. Suffice it to say that it was the opportunity of a lifetime, one I had been told I would have to miss because there was no way I could come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057,26,635,5,3,16],"tags":[717],"class_list":["post-21703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bailey","category-colorado","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","tag-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}