{"id":5345,"date":"2026-03-25T07:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:38:36","slug":"260325-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/260325-last-day\/","title":{"rendered":"260325-Last day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I packed up my bicycle this morning. It&#8217;s hard to believe that I&#8217;ve packed it up 33 times! 32 flights and one bus. I bought the bicycle in Europe the first trip, I drove to and from a C&amp;O trip, I cycled home from the Albany trip, and I got a ride home from Memphis on the New Orleans trip.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotten lost twice on the way home (Paris and Warsaw through Paris &#8211; be warned!), and once on the way over (Krakov), but it&#8217;s always shown back up again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5347\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/260325-last-day\/5239_edited2751337756031928286\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5239_edited2751337756031928286.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"768,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel 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1366w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5237_edited4939019908096544038-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5237_edited4939019908096544038-1024x601.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5237_edited4939019908096544038-768x451.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5237_edited4939019908096544038-1200x705.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5348\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/260325-last-day\/5238_edited8879611707834940234\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1366,1360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234-1024x1020.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234-768x765.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5238_edited8879611707834940234-1200x1195.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that was a quiet day. I visited Taipei 101, the Taiwan world trade center. Took the subway to the Dihua Street market to wander about for a bit. I love subways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5349\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/260325-last-day\/5240_edited1952343812442459909\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1366\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel 9a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1774446765&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.53&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;29&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000669&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5240_edited1952343812442459909\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909-225x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909.jpeg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/5240_edited1952343812442459909-768x1025.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I packed up my bicycle this morning. It&#8217;s hard to believe that I&#8217;ve packed it up 33 times! 32 flights and one bus. I bought the bicycle in Europe the first trip, I drove to and from a C&amp;O trip, I cycled home from the Albany trip, and I got a ride home from Memphis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/260325-last-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;260325-Last day&#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-5345","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\/5345","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=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}