{"id":368,"date":"2017-05-17T00:49:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decamp.org\/?p=368"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:38:33","slug":"2017-motorcycle-tour-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"2017 Motorcycle Tour Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First leg:\u00a0 Lake Almanor to Moore, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At 6:30 on a cold (38 degrees!) Saturday morning, rolled out of Tandy&#8217;s driveway and began what would be a three day leg to Moore, Oklahoma, arriving before noon after 27 riding hours and 2,250 miles.\u00a0 Thank goodness for the heated vest.\u00a0 States traveled:\u00a0 California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-368-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MIchaelDuck.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MIchaelDuck.mp4\">https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MIchaelDuck.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a great ride in spite of the temperature extremes, gusty cross-winds across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and the lonely stretch of Nevada where there was only one gas station in 200 miles.\u00a0 (On the plus side&#8211;now I know how far I can go on the fuel reserve.)\u00a0 The scenery was beautiful and the only problem I had with the bike was keeping the speed from creeping up&#8211;it&#8217;s much happier running hard.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the Spot device tracks not showing up on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/?page_id=320\">Where&#8217;s Michael?<\/a>&#8221; web page proved to be my error.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t click the right check box on the configuration page.\u00a0 It now seems to be working.\u00a0 If you do look at the historical tracks, keep in mind that each &#8220;page&#8221; of tracks only holds 50 samples, so to see the older ones (even from the same day), you have to page backwards in the list.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that by the time I reached Moore I was ready to get off the bike for awhile.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to a more relaxed visit with my family here, then off to Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been some time since I&#8217;ve been somewhere with real weather.\u00a0 Tonight there&#8217;s a series of bad storms sweeping through Oklahoma, with damage already from tornadoes and hail.\u00a0 Fortunately, my sister has a storm shelter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3816.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-N6iTx8mi\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3816.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3816.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3816-300x182.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3816-768x466.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tip:\u00a0 If you install the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/myradar-noaa-weather-radar-forecasts-storms\/id322439990?mt=8\">MyRadar<\/a> weather app, remember to turn off the severe weather alarms unless you want to be up all night in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/storm.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-N6iTx8mi\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/storm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/storm.jpg 707w, https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/storm-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First leg:\u00a0 Lake Almanor to Moore, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34,4,36],"tags":[39,17,31,18],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","category-motorcycles","category-travel","tag-family","tag-life","tag-motorcycles","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}