{"id":23354,"date":"2010-04-16T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T05:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2016-09-14T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:56:14","slug":"victoria-to-campbell-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria to Campbell River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drive home this evening was interminable. It was almost entirely stop and go from downtown Victoria to Parksville, north of Nanaimo, and then I caught every single red light between Nanaimo and home. It took four hours to get home (with a five minute stop in Nanaimo) and my clutch foot was actually swollen by the time I got here!<\/p>\n<p>I made one photo-worthy stop on the way home, at the Malahat lookout, which offers great views of the San Juan Island and other American locales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0195-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6436\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG01951-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0195\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0196-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6437\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6437\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG0196-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0196\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0197-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6438\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG0197-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0197\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0198-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6439\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG01981-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0198\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0199-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6440\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG01991-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0199\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6441\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0200-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6441\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6441\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG02001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"the long narrow cloud really looks like a leaf\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the long narrow cloud really looks like a leaf<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6442\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/victoria-to-campbell-river\/cimg0201-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6442\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6442\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CIMG02011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"close up of the leaf cloud; it had a middle rib and lines that looked like veins\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">close up of the leaf cloud; it had a middle rib and lines that looked like veins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This was definitely a drive that was more fun with a companion and several planned stops. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive home this evening was interminable. It was almost entirely stop and go from downtown Victoria to Parksville, north of Nanaimo, and then I caught every single red light between Nanaimo and home. It took four hours to get home (with a five minute stop in Nanaimo) and my clutch foot was actually swollen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,1260,635,1487,5,3,1416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-nanaimo-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-parksville","category-rving","category-travel","category-victoria-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354","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=23354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}