{"id":1210,"date":"2006-09-18T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T07:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:54","slug":"3557_miles_12_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"3557 Miles, 12 Days. No Tickets, No Crashing, Just Great Riding, People and Places."},"content":{"rendered":"

So we’re back home – actually were back home from the motorcycle trip Thursday night, and then turned around and left Friday morning for our annual 10-family camping trip on Catalina Island with Littlest Guy. <\/p>\n

Not a lot of connectivity over any of those days…<\/p>\n

But I got to think a lot, see a lot of the country (some like Yosemite quite familiar, some – like Eastern Oregon – completely new to me), have fun with TG and interact with a fair number of people – people we knew, like Michael Totten and Gerard Vanderleun, and TG’s cousin Yaeko – and lots of people we didn’t, who we met in scenic overlooks, gas stations and restaurants, all places where we seemed to spend a lot of time.<\/p>\n

There’s something about travelling by motorcycle which changes the interaction you have with the people you meet while on the road. Maybe they presume that because you are more accessible to the elements you are more accessible to them as well, and so they walk up and approach you with very little hesitation. I think that’s great.<\/p>\n

I’ll write more thoughtful things over the next week, about what we saw and who we met as well as things I thought about. But the overall impression is of the essential goodness and kindness of everyone we met – they were just nice and decent people who went out of their way to be helpful to us without expecting anything in return.<\/p>\n

Our gear – my KTM 950 Adventure and TG’s Kawasaki Ninja 650, our Aerostich suits, Shoei helmets, etc. etc. all served us very well.<\/p>\n

And the riding was great. We discovered a new favorite road pretty much every day. <\/p>\n

And I got huge chunks of time with just TG, which reminded me why it is that I’m so darn lucky to be married to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal comes home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}