{"id":235,"date":"2011-06-20T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:23:16","slug":"day-10-astoria-to-renton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/day-10-astoria-to-renton\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10 – Astoria to Renton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Angie and I were leaving our room to go get breakfast and I happened to look out the window and saw another motorcycle.\u00a0 The rider was putting on his vest and ear plugs, etc.\u00a0 I was just about to turn away when a small poodle poked its head out from around the back of the bike.\u00a0 Now there was no side car like the one we’d seen yesterday (boxer wearing goggles).\u00a0 So we stayed to watch the scene unfold.\u00a0 The rider put on what appeared to be a baby carrier, but after he fiddled with it a bit turned out to be a backpack worn backwards.\u00a0 After making some more adjustments he scooped up the dog and placed it into the backpack.\u00a0 Now you may be thinking this couldn’t get any weirder, but it does.\u00a0 He then proceeds to put goggles on the dog.\u00a0 Perhaps the dog enjoys this…<\/p>\n

We rode north along US Route 101 for the majority of the day.\u00a0 We’d taken this route a while back when we went on a weekend trip.\u00a0 Not a whole lot had changed — except for the temperature.\u00a0 When we rode it last we would have been lucky if it was in the 50’s.\u00a0 This time it was into the 70’s and perfect.<\/p>\n

Along the way back towards Renton we needed to take I5.\u00a0 Either the GPS wanted one last crazy attack, or I have the routing preferences really screwed up.\u00a0 It wanted to route us off of the “main” I5 route, into a set of merging lanes, and then back out into the main stream of traffic.\u00a0 We’d experienced this once before, and I was skeptical.\u00a0 It was a good thing that I looked ahead, because merging back in would have been rough to say the least for both of us and sticking together we the amount of traffic already on the road.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I’ve posted this here yet or not, but my bike likes to eat oil.\u00a0 It used to really go through oil when I first bought it, and its thirst has been slowly quenched as it has become older.\u00a0 I was surprised that with all of the miles it had yet to put up the warning light for low oil during the trip.\u00a0 Well, it did.\u00a0 Only a few miles from home the light went on.\u00a0 Not a big thing you may think, but the light came on during 6% uphill climb on a buys street.\u00a0 Pulled off and topped it up with the quart of oil I carry for just these circumstances, so it wasn’t a big deal in the long run.\u00a0 It was more as if the bike didn’t want to head home.<\/p>\n

Pictures from Day 10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angie and I were leaving our room to go get breakfast and I happened to look out the window and saw another motorcycle.\u00a0 The rider was putting on his vest and ear plugs, etc.\u00a0 I was just about to turn away when a small poodle poked its head out from around the back of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-ride-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}