{"id":109,"date":"2011-09-19T01:05:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T05:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2020-12-27T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:10:08","slug":"day-6-catch-up-time-from-the-riders-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 &#8211; Catch up time from the riders view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy few days for us and words can&#8217;t really do justice for some of the things we&#8217;ve seen in the last 6 days. &nbsp;We&#8217;ve been in temperatures as high as 102 to as low as 42, sometimes the change has been within hours of each other!! &nbsp; We&#8217;ve been just shy of 10000 ft above sea level to 258 ft below sea level. We&#8217;ve been along the coast, in the mountains and in the desert. &nbsp;We&#8217;ve seen some of Mother Natures most beautiful works and we still have another whole week to go.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who has never been on a motorcycle before it&#8217;s hard to describe how different the experience is from doing it in a car. &nbsp;You get to feel all the temperatures and how quickly it changes. &nbsp;You get to smell all the smells which at times can not be so good! &nbsp;You get to see so much more than if you were in a car. &nbsp;I can promise you that nothing gets your heart racing like coming down or going up a curvy mountain road with loose gravel and no guard rails!! &nbsp;I swore a few times it looked like we were going right off the mountain. &nbsp;I have to admit to shutting my eyes more than once. &nbsp;Lucky for me that Sandy is such an awesome driver!!<\/p>\n<p>We finally left CA today and entered into NV. &nbsp;Everything we&#8217;ve seen on the trip has been a new experience for me. &nbsp;I am so glad I&#8217;ve had the chance to experience this with Sandy. &nbsp;I have a whole new appreciation for CA and all the beautiful sights in holds. &nbsp;Today we did Death Valley and it was gorgeous and really HOT! &nbsp;That&#8217;s where we felt the 102 temp in a place called the Furnace. &nbsp;Seems someone named that correctly! &nbsp;I&#8217;m looking forward to what tomorrow holds and what new trouble we can get into!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy few days for us and words can&#8217;t really do justice for some of the things we&#8217;ve seen in the last 6 days. &nbsp;We&#8217;ve been in temperatures as high as 102 to as low as 42, sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteredzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}