{"id":19,"date":"2008-07-06T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-05-17T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:40:59","slug":"saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/06\/saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, let’s catch up on Saturday. For some reason my little bluetooth<\/span> keyboard wouldn’t sync with my phone last night so I never got to do this write-up. <\/p>\n

On Saturday it happened; my brain slipped into touring mode. When we started out in the morning everything felt calm and peaceful and gentle. We rode lazily along quiet back<\/span> roads along the Delaware River, and later on the D&R Canal Bike Path. We stopped for lunch in Lambertville<\/span> after about 35 perfect touring miles. And yet again the ever-threatening skies held off and we got only the occasional stray raindrop. <\/p>\n

After lunch we turned west and left the river headed for Norristown<\/span>. Bucks County, PA is very pretty with prosperous looking, well-tended houses. It also seems to be growing fast with new housing developments going in everywhere, making the roads probably more trafficed<\/span> than when the route was originally laid out. The roads here are laid out mostly in a grid pattern and we were traveling across the grid at an angle so we made a long series of right and left turns until we finally arrived in Norristown<\/span>. The route actually skirts the town coming down to the Schuylkill River and it’s bike path at the western edge of Norristown<\/span>, so when we got there we turned east on Main Street and rode into town looking for a nice place to stay. Well, we kept riding and riding until we rode right out the other side of town, and all we saw was slum after slum. Norristown<\/span> is evidently a city on the wane and no place I would want to spend a night of my vacation, so we turned around and rode back through town and finally located a nice hotel out in the western suburbs located in the middle of mall hell; the typical suburban sprawl of big box stores and chain restaurants. After a tough 80 miles we didn’t care and had a great night in our comfortable hotel room. <\/p>\n

Happy Anniversary Jodi Mary Silver, and thank you for agreeing to marry me! <\/p>\n

As I mentioned we made 80 miles on Saturday, putting us 480 miles from home. <\/p>\n

Allen Freeman
allen@allenf.com
www.allenf.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, let’s catch up on Saturday. For some reason my little bluetooth keyboard wouldn’t sync with my phone last night so I never got to do this write-up. On Saturday it happened; my brain slipped into touring mode. When we started out in the morning everything felt calm and peaceful and gentle. We rode lazily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle_touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}