{"id":101,"date":"2007-07-26T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2007-07-26T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T08:04:40","slug":"preparing-for-the-trip-is-half-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/preparing-for-the-trip-is-half-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the trip is half the fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So very true! I love reading about other people planning their own trips &#8211; and the language they use to explain the hardships that face us on the road &#8211; those very hardships which make the trip worth doing in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t put a lot of quotes on this blog but I read this over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsunlimited.com\/\">Horizons Unlimited<\/a> this morning and it made me laugh &#8211; a lot &#8211; I just wonder if it&#8217;s only us mad bikers that this is funny to?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once again, I am packing for a trip where the the temperature can range from &#8220;why the hell is my helmet filling up with smoke &#8211; shit, my hair is on fire again&#8221; to &#8220;that had better not been my other testicle that just rattled down my pant leg. I wasn&#8217;t done with it yet!&#8221;. Welcome to travel in Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thread over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsunlimited.com\/hubb\/north-america\/since-preparing-trip-half-fun-27914\">Horizons Unlimited HUBB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So very true! I love reading about other people planning their own trips &#8211; and the language they use to explain the hardships that face us on the road &#8211; those very hardships which make the trip worth doing in the first place. I don&#8217;t put a lot of quotes on this blog but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/preparing-for-the-trip-is-half-the-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for the trip is half the fun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}