{"id":643,"date":"2015-04-20T19:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=643"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:20:37","slug":"thwarted-at-john-day-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/thwarted-at-john-day-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Thwarted at John Day again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my second overnight in John Day, OR. \u00a0When I’m traveling by motorcycle I typically stay at a Best Western. \u00a0It’s a known quantity and I don’t have to worry if I’m going to end up at a\u00a0murder palace.<\/p>\n

\"Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today was a surprisingly good day. \u00a0Per my revised plan, with input from Angie, I ended up in John Day. \u00a0The day started great with perfect riding weather. \u00a0Nevada decided that it would rather sacrifice round-tailed ground squirrels<\/a>\u00a0via tire smashing then try and blow me off the road. \u00a0If my first day had been like today, I’d be fighting looking for alternate ways through Wyoming due to the fatal car collision which closed\u00a0I-80<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The landscape was beautiful heading back for those of us that like the stark landscape of the high desert. \u00a0It slowly became more desert-lush the further north I headed.<\/p>\n

Enough time had passed since my last visit though John Day and US route 395 that I forgotten about the crazy hill climb — or rather the decent from the south. \u00a0I was thinking to myself that I should recommend this route to my co-worker who likes to take road trips, until I arrived at the decent.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

For those of you scoring at home that is roughly a 2,000 foot drop in about 2 miles as the crow files. \u00a0That might not sound like much, but don’t forget to factor in two importing things: \u00a0my fear of heights and Oregon’s lack of side rails on roads. \u00a0So if I hadn’t been crawling along below the speed limit, white knuckling the handle bars, I would have been biting my nails.<\/p>\n

I made it to John Day despite my fears. \u00a0I’m staying in a Bates Motel kind of thing because the Best Western in town is yet again full. \u00a0I manage to choose the nights when they have some group staying there. \u00a0I really need to get better at timing these things. \u00a0Although, in my defense I didn’t think I’d end up here until late yesterday.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I should be back in Portland and then off to Chicago via\u00a0bourgeois airplane means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is my second overnight in John Day, OR. \u00a0When I’m traveling by motorcycle I typically stay at a Best Western. \u00a0It’s a known quantity and I don’t have to worry if I’m going to end up at a\u00a0murder palace.   Today was a surprisingly good day. \u00a0Per my revised plan, with input from Angie, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-ride-report","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}