{"id":149,"date":"2014-06-15T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2014-06-15T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T23:04:39","slug":"planes-trains-automobiles-bus-and-now-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Bus and now Bike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 4 forms of transportation I have made it to my starting pt.<\/p>\n<p>The route I am taking is called the Northern Tier and it starts in Anacortes WA. This is supposed to be the western most part of the lower 48 in the northern part of the country. Three months ago I googled bike shops in Anacortes and found Skagit Cycle. When I explained to the women on the phone that I was wondering if I could ship my bike to their shop because I was going to attempt to cycle the Northern Tier, her response was &#8221; what do you mean ATTEMPT it, you are going to do it!&#8221; I proceeded to spend the next 30 min getting a motivational speech from Bernie and a couple of good pointers. It turns out that I had lucked into the unofficial bike shop for Northern Tier cyclists. They get about 50 requests a year for people heading east in June and July. And in Aug and Sept they pack up bikes to ship home for cyclists that started in Bar Harbor Maine and finish in WA. Here I am with my bike reassembled<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo1-jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 4 forms of transportation I have made it to my starting pt. The route I am taking is called the Northern Tier and it starts in Anacortes WA. This is supposed to be the western most part of the lower 48 in the northern part of the country. Three months ago I googled bike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}