{"id":246,"date":"2010-09-05T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:27:58","slug":"great-ride-up-the-eastern-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"First day of my adventure<br>301 miles: Home to Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/2010\/2010-09-05-to-17_SuzukiRideToOregon\/slideshow_2010-09-05.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0015_450-330_with-text.jpg\" alt=\"Near little lake on highway 395\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><br>\nThis road has to be one of the great scenic high\u00adways of the world, cer\u00adtain\u00adly one of my favorites. I am so grate\u00adful I thought to come this way and cer\u00adtain\u00adly to be able to cruise through it on my Suzu\u00adki mag\u00adic car\u00adpet, I\u2019ve nev\u00ader enjoyed it more than&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I am stay\u00ading in Inde\u00adpen\u00addence in the his\u00adtoric, i.e. 1927, Win\u00adndumah Hotel. I am just back in my room after sit\u00adting on the front porch for a cou\u00adple of hours watch\u00ading the 395 traf\u00adfic roll by and vis\u00adit\u00ading with a cou\u00adple on their way home from Burn\u00ading Man. Many inter\u00adest\u00ading sto\u00adries accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by 200 images on their camera.<\/p>\n<p>Friend Car\u00adol Born\u00adstein\u2019s sug\u00adgest\u00aded I stop on the way here at Fos\u00adsil Falls. I rode in the .4 miles of dirt, parked the moto with my trusty, patent\u00aded String-O-Board then walked in the 1\/4 mile to the Fos\u00adsil Falls. Very worth\u00adwhile side trip and good to test the waters a bit beyond the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>I also stopped for a bit at Man\u00adza\u00adnar, as I usu\u00adal\u00adly do. What a sad part of our his\u00adto\u00adry. Kind of erodes the \u201ccan\u2019t hap\u00adpen here&nbsp;myth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Great first day out. Tomor\u00adrow it\u2019s into the East\u00adern Sierra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This road has to be one of the great scenic high\u00adways of the world, cer\u00adtain\u00adly one of my favorites. I am so grate\u00adful I thought to come this way and cer\u00adtain\u00adly to be able to cruise through it on my Suzu\u00adki mag\u00adic car\u00adpet, I\u2019ve nev\u00ader enjoyed it more than&nbsp;today. Tonight I am stay\u00ading in Inde\u00adpen\u00addence <a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=246\" 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":[10,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}