{"id":511,"date":"2015-06-20T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=511"},"modified":"2015-06-20T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:56:15","slug":"day-8-fort-collins-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Fort Collins, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our first full day in Colorado, we hung out with a friend of mine who is studying there. She showed us around town and drove us up to a more scenic area, which looked oddly Scottish due to what we were told was unusually wet weather.<\/p>\n

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A bit…Scottish?<\/p><\/div>\n

Most people we spoke to have made Colorado’s weather sound quite ideal really – not too hot or cold, not too humid, few extreme beyond hail and occasional flooding if you live in the wrong place.<\/p>\n

Fort Collins in particular was by far the most cosmopolitan place we’d been in a while. It’s a typical university town, one hour’s commute from Denver. Through much of South Dakota and Wyoming, we felt lucky if the town we were in had a Walmart. We stayed in one place that didn’t even appear to have a grocery store.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here is a video of\u00a0Chris interviewing my friend about why she likes where she lives:<\/p>\n