{"id":128,"date":"2006-09-10T23:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T06:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2007-07-30T07:11:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T14:11:30","slug":"750-miles-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/10\/750-miles-today\/","title":{"rendered":"750 miles today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGot a late start, but ended up inexplicably in Salt Lake City. Taking things a bit easier tomorrow, we&#8217;ll see where we go from there.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCouple of thoughts for the evening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This country is empty! I always forget that until I take a long roadtrip. No one seems to live in the interior, we&#8217;re all bunched up on the coasts.\n<li>Bugs! Yes, on the coast we have ants, spiders, and bees. But we don&#8217;t have the mass attacks of moth-like insects on windshields that exist out here. Again, how could I forget that?\n<li>Saw deer, a juvenile coyote (almost ran him down at 75mph), and a HUGE jack rabbit today. Numerous carcasses of roadkill too.\n<li>Infrastructure. Ours is crumbling. The roads are absolutely horrible. Though we do seem to have invested in law enforcement. I counted 18 different troopers today&#8230;..with all that ticket revenue we ought to fix the roads.\n<li>One good idea today on location-based services.\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. More tomorrow after some rest. I&#8217;m zonked out.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeatspace coordinates: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=40.4625,+-112.0035&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=12&#038;om=1&#038;iwloc=A\">N40.46.2 W112.00.3<\/a><br \/>\nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/oob;_ylt=ApiRDtt7p8MTZpktFXDiDqUcvrYF\">2-0<\/a> Next up: Cincinnati 9\/16<br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=21365008&#038;s=143441&#038;i=21364988\">Between the Bars<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeleinepeyroux.org\/\">Madeleine Peyroux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/travel\" rel=\"tag\"> Travel<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/roadtrip\"> Roadtrip<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/utah\"> Utah<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\"> Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a late start, but ended up inexplicably in Salt Lake City. Taking things a bit easier tomorrow, we&#8217;ll see where we go from there. Couple of thoughts for the evening: This country is empty! I always forget that until I take a long roadtrip. No one seems to live in the interior, we&#8217;re all [&hellip;]<\/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":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}