Surfin' USA - Dowdle Bicycle Rocky Mountain National Park encompasses

Rocky Mountain National Park encompasses some of the most spectacular high-mountain meadows

The view in the background showcases colourful buildings on either side of the water with another bridge towards the back

Sarah Thornton is an oil painter from Minnesota with a background in biology and a love for color theory

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Surfin' USA - Dowdle Bicycle Rocky Mountain National Park encompassesIf everybody had an ocean across the U. S. A, then everybodyd be surfin like Californ i a, is how Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys put it. Riding waves has probably been around as long as humans have gone into the ocean. Stand up wave riding, which we know as surfing, was first seen by Europeans in the Hawaiian Islands in 1700. Duke Kahanamoku, the Big Kahuna, won a gold medal for swimming in the 1912 Olympics and then toured the world to demonstrate