{"id":14133,"date":"2012-04-29T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2016-09-18T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T06:19:16","slug":"grateful-for-my-mojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/grateful-for-my-mojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful For My Mojo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working out tomorrow&#8217;s driving day, which will take me across the Blue Ridge Mountains and one section with a 7% downhill grade over 5 miles. Last year, I would have lost sleep over this. But <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11778\">my experience through Idaho into Montana over the Fourth of July and Lookout Passes<\/a> made me a lot more confident about my mountain driving experience. However, those were only 5% and 6% grades respectively, so I can expect this 7% grade to be a bit more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only about 400 miles from my destination in Virginia and if it weren&#8217;t for this mountainous section, I would be very tempted to start early tomorrow and do a canonball run. Instead I will get through the mountains and assess the time remaining for the journey once I reach mid-afternoon. I would love to arrive tomorrow, but not if it means doing so completely frazzled! I know I am entering a particularly beautiful bit of the US and I can&#8217;t wait to savour the landscapes before I return to the teeming mass of humanity that suffocates the entire east coast.<\/p>\n<p>The last two weeks have been absolutely amazing and I cannot believe I am on the home stretch for this part of the journey!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working out tomorrow&#8217;s driving day, which will take me across the Blue Ridge Mountains and one section with a 7% downhill grade over 5 miles. Last year, I would have lost sleep over this. But my experience through Idaho into Montana over the Fourth of July and Lookout Passes made me a lot more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,5,3,16,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133","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=14133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}