{"id":14689,"date":"2012-05-13T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T22:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2016-09-18T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T08:38:12","slug":"oh-happy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/oh-happy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Happy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got in from a visit with my friend. She has been sooooo ill this week. \ud83d\ude41 But today she felt up to a short visit (and, most importantly, she was no longer contagious!). I treated her to a late lunch\/early dinner at Cracker Barrel. We wound up having very little time together on this visit, but I&#8217;m grateful that we had some time. I am planning to spend the American Thanksgiving with her and her family. If those plans fall through, then we&#8217;ll know for sure we&#8217;re cursed.<\/p>\n<p>My last Amazon package arrived yesterday, so I was able to pick that up. She also gave me fun present that is going into Miranda&#8217;s cab: bacon-scented air freshener. Isn&#8217;t she hilarious? There is a bit of an inside joke to that, with my being a new convert to bacon and her being a lifelong fan of the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going to happen tomorrow with the rig repairs. I&#8217;m going to pack the rig tonight since I&#8217;m sure Miranda will be ready for a road test by tomorrow afternoon (well, a captain can hope). I&#8217;m staying home in the morning until the mechanic comes so I can get a status update and ask that the tire pressure be checked.<\/p>\n<p>Once Miranda comes back from the mechanic&#8217;s road test, I&#8217;d like to take her out myself and get fuel. The nearby dump station is closed, so heading that way is out of the question. I also need to look for propane, but I think that is going to happen en route.<\/p>\n<p>If I can be underway first thing Tuesday, then my ETA in Quebec is noonish Thursday. I&#8217;ve got the route planned out and have done all of it before except the bit between Albany and the border. So I know that the first bit will be a little challenging while I get out of the Richmond\/DC corridor, but once I get to I-81 (from route 17 at Fredericksburg to I-66 to I-81), it&#8217;ll be smooth sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got in from a visit with my friend. She has been sooooo ill this week. \ud83d\ude41 But today she felt up to a short visit (and, most importantly, she was no longer contagious!). I treated her to a late lunch\/early dinner at Cracker Barrel. We wound up having very little time together on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,1298,5,613,3,16,612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-petersburg","category-rving","category-suffolk","category-travel","category-usa","category-virginia-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689","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=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}