{"id":530,"date":"2009-08-03T19:33:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:00:27","slug":"off-the-beaten-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/off-the-beaten-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the beaten path"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunset<\/p>\n

Yesterday I ventured away from the main highway and took two detours. One upon recommendation of Peter and Diana, who I had met and spent some nice time over dinner with the day before. The other one to find some camping accomodation in a nice nature setting away from the highway.<\/p>\n

\"Less<\/p>\n

The first detour was just South of Williams Lake, where the main highway goes over a big hill and the old road meanders around closer to the valley bottom.<\/p>\n

\"Riding<\/p>\n

One of the things that slows me down here are the many cattleguards, which I am crossing very slowly and carefully:<\/p>\n

\"Rolling<\/p>\n

Friend Peter lives out here and shows me the very idyllic place of his landlady, a house with an interesting history.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

After riding a couple of hours on the main highway again I reach 100 Mile House and stop by at the Visitor Center. There I discuss several options for a nice place within reach for a stay overnight. One recommendation is to detour towards Green Lake. A look at the map makes this seem reasonable, with moderate extra km to go. It is getting late in the evening, so the sun is casting long shadows again.<\/p>\n

\"Riding<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the backroads here are very hilly, and I take a wrong turn once, having to backtrack a few km and vertical m. It takes me 2.5 hours to cover 35km, definitely longer than I expected. Hence I end up in a race against time due to the sun setting earlier. Speaking of sunset: At one point the sun sits bloodred just behind me in the rearview mirror:<\/p>\n

\"Sun<\/p>\n

Another half hour or so of tiring up-&-down riding brings me to Green Lake and the Little Horse Lodge. The scenery is very pretty, with the moon rising and some thunderheads glowing red in the distance.<\/p>\n

\"Moon<\/p>\n

My only complaint with this backroad detour is that the German restaurant at the lodge already closed at 8pm, 1 hour before I get there … and they had German dinner specials that night :-((<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I ventured away from the main highway and took two detours. One upon recommendation of Peter and Diana, who I had met and spent some nice time over dinner with the day before. The other one to find some camping accomodation in a nice nature setting away from the highway. The first detour was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}