{"id":25,"date":"2008-07-03T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-09-11T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T07:37:14","slug":"get-me-away-from-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/get-me-away-from-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Me Away from Google Maps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a truly unfathomable reason, I thought it was possible to drive from Inuvik directly to Yellowknife, through the NWT. So, in my mind, next spring I was driving to Whitehorse, Dawson City, taking the Dempster to Inuvik, going to Yellowknife, and then heading south through Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where my head was. I knew better than that.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is my revised cross-country itinerary:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_W5r1ko4uTvU\/SG0-DUwKLCI\/AAAAAAAAAVM\/DgmTESRojn8\/s1600-h\/map.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_237\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-237\" title=\"itinerary2\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/itinerary2-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Rae should be banned for life from Google maps\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rae should be banned for life from Google maps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know how insane that looks, but it&#8217;s actually reasonably doable if I save days by riding hard to Winnipeg (averaging 500km per day).<\/p>\n<p>The most likely scenario, though, will be that I&#8217;ll return to Alberta and Saskatchewan as planned in the spring and just go straight from Brandon to Saskatoon to Edmonton to Yellowknife to interior BC by the most direct route.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Quite the carrot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a truly unfathomable reason, I thought it was possible to drive from Inuvik directly to Yellowknife, through the NWT. So, in my mind, next spring I was driving to Whitehorse, Dawson City, taking the Dempster to Inuvik, going to Yellowknife, and then heading south through Edmonton. I have no idea where my head was. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}