{"id":3558,"date":"2023-04-21T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:50:17","slug":"230421-welcome-to-bike-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/230421-welcome-to-bike-touring\/","title":{"rendered":"230421-Welcome to bike touring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt realized today he&#8217;d left a pair of bike shorts at our last hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain this morning, which stopped by 9:00 am. No more rain until after dark. Figures.<\/p>\n<p>I got to spend the day with my dear friends Steve and April. We did fun and exciting things like grocery shopping. They drove 4 hours to see me, and I appreciate every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3560\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/230421-welcome-to-bike-touring\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3560 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505578587346536191851741-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also learned we have a mutual friend in Memphis! Given I once cycled across Germany to visit a random couple I&#8217;d met at a campground in Switzerland, I hope we can work that out!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3561\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/230421-welcome-to-bike-touring\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3561 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20230422_0505367974443811745731090-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt realized today he&#8217;d left a pair of bike shorts at our last hotel. Heavy rain this morning, which stopped by 9:00 am. No more rain until after dark. Figures. I got to spend the day with my dear friends Steve and April. We did fun and exciting things like grocery shopping. They drove 4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/230421-welcome-to-bike-touring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;230421-Welcome to bike touring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}