{"id":5634,"date":"2015-08-10T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2015-12-13T13:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:36:23","slug":"scotland-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=5634","title":{"rendered":"Scotland bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I had to pull out of the Tour Divide, I cancelled the leave I’d arranged with work, and we tossed up options for a family bike holiday\/vacation in late summer. Mongolia? Cuba? The Maritimes? Israel? The Chilcotins (in BC)? Maybe Scandinavia? Or somewhere in the States?<\/p>\n

I left the final choice up to Alex, seeing as I will be claiming a good chunk of time when I finally, hopefully, ride the Tour Divide.<\/p>\n

He opted for Scotland. A corner of the UK we never got to when doing our big Euro cycle tour in 2009. Not too far away, reasonable for a shorter trip.<\/p>\n

And so now, 3 months later, my knee still isn’t 100 percent. But we’re sorting out gear, trying to remember how to do this multi-day bike touring thing, and trying to strike a balance between comfort and weight as we make our final gear decisions.<\/p>\n

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In a few days we’ll be jumping on a plane. I hope my knee will be ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I had to pull out of the Tour Divide, I cancelled the leave I’d arranged with work, and we tossed up options for a family bike holiday\/vacation in late summer. Mongolia? Cuba? The Maritimes? Israel? The Chilcotins (in BC)? Maybe Scandinavia? Or somewhere in the States? I left the final choice up to Alex, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[1475,1540,1539,1561],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-general","tag-bikepacking","tag-packing","tag-scotland","tag-scotland2015"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/images\/20150808-IMG_5964-X21.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["bikes<\/a>","general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikes<\/span>","general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["bikepacking<\/a>","packing<\/a>","scotland<\/a>","scotland2015<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikepacking<\/span>","packing<\/span>","scotland<\/span>","scotland2015<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"3","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 years ago","modified":"Updated 10 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 10.8.2015","modified":"Updated on 13.12.2015"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 10.8.2015 12:04 am","modified":"Updated on 13.12.2015 1:36 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}