{"id":13799,"date":"2012-04-21T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T04:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13799"},"modified":"2016-09-17T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:35:30","slug":"looking-for-the-best-way-across-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/looking-for-the-best-way-across-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For the Best Way Across the Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep bringing up Google Maps and looking at my atlas, trying to find the best route to Virginia from here. The most direct route is familiar, but it&#8217;s messy because I need to circumvent Chicagoland. The less direct route seems easier. Both routes are in tornado country. My head is telling me to go the first way. My gut is screaming &#8220;South! Go south!&#8221; I&#8217;m listening to that gut feeling. The last time I was contemplating two routes with no obviously better option, I ignored my gut feeling an number of times, and <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2802\">I paid dearly for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably have to stay in Hankinson an extra night, putting my departure at Tuesday morning. This is the route I have in mind, give or take a few miles at each stop depending on overnighting opportunities. It gives me three spare days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/route.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13800\" title=\"route\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/route.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Hankinson to Omaha to Kansas City to St. Louis to Louisville to Charleston to my destination in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I&#8217;d be adding South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Kentucky to my visited states map (putting me at 38) has nothing to do with my decision, but is a nice bonus. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep bringing up Google Maps and looking at my atlas, trying to find the best route to Virginia from here. The most direct route is familiar, but it&#8217;s messy because I need to circumvent Chicagoland. The less direct route seems easier. Both routes are in tornado country. My head is telling me to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,5,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}