{"id":127,"date":"2016-09-01T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-09-01T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:16:30","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Here we go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>The odyssey has begun! \u00a0I packed all of my gear and my bike and shipped it off to Chicago where I will hopefully meet up with it in a few days.\n<figure id=\"attachment_129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/?attachment_id=129\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;All my gear ready to go&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"All my gear ready to go\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All my gear ready to go<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the mean time, Linda and I headed for New York to spend a few days with Jordan before she starts school on Sept 6th.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/?attachment_id=130\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;In NY with a few close friends waiting for a taxi&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"In NY with a few close friends waiting for a taxi\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In NY with a few close friends waiting for a taxi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s still a little hard to believe this is really going to happen! \u00a0Things will change dramatically over the next few days. I will go from staying in the condo of some very generous friends right near Times Square<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/?attachment_id=131\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;View from the condo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"View from the condo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the condo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(and sampling wonderful NY restaurants) to staying at some friends house in Chicago to staying in a hostel in Chicago ( the night before we ride out) to living out of a tent for two months and cooking on camp stoves!! 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In the mean time, Linda and I headed for New York to spend a few days with Jordan before she starts school on Sept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/?p=127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here we go!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7FBZO-23","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}