{"id":175,"date":"2010-08-01T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-08-07T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:28:35","slug":"wonderful-visit-with-best-friends-dave-marcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful visit with best friends Dave <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> Marcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/2010\/2010-08-01_Bike-ride-with-Dave\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0005_500-352_with-text.jpg\" alt=\"Bike ride with Dave August 1, 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Best friends Dave and Mar\u00adcia came to San\u00adta Bar\u00adbara from their home in Texas to par\u00adtake with class\u00admates in a 50th anniver\u00adsary reunion of their all grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading from <span class=\"caps\">USCB<\/span>. This pre\u00adsent\u00aded the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for Dave and I to go for a bike ride togeth\u00ader after a 30 year rid\u00ading gap, Dave on the same bike he had at that time. Mar\u00adcia, Dave, and I had a nice break\u00adfast vis\u00adit at Max\u2019s restau\u00adrant then Dave and I went out for a 35 mile spin thru Hope Ranch, <span class=\"caps\">UCSB<\/span>, Coal Oil Point, and back. When we returned the three of us chat\u00adted on for anoth\u00ader hour or so talk\u00ading about old times and present times, includ\u00ading catch\u00ading up on what has been hap\u00adpen\u00ading with their two sons; Mark and&nbsp;Brian.<\/p>\n<p>Dave and I were best friends for the 70\u2019s into the 80\u2019s when I moved to San\u00adta Bar\u00adbara. The bond remains regard\u00adless of time and place. We lived in La Cana\u00adda at the time and were sep\u00ada\u00adrat\u00aded by about 4 blocks. We jogged most week\u00adday morn\u00adings togeth\u00ader for years, rode our bikes in all dif\u00adfer\u00adent direc\u00adtions and dis\u00adtances, and I spent count\u00adless hours with them in their home along with their two sons. I felt very much like extend\u00aded family.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>Wonderful, warm memories.<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best friends Dave and Mar\u00adcia came to San\u00adta Bar\u00adbara from their home in Texas to par\u00adtake with class\u00admates in a 50th anniver\u00adsary reunion of their all grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading from <span class=\"caps\">USCB<\/span>. This pre\u00adsent\u00aded the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for Dave and I to go for a bike ride togeth\u00ader after a 30 year rid\u00ading gap, Dave on the same bike <a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=175\" class=\"excerpt-more\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}