{"id":2559,"date":"2013-01-11T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2013-01-11T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T16:04:25","slug":"day-9-hello-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/day-9-hello-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: Hello, Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wickenburg, AZ to Phoenix, AZ
<\/strong>Date: 01\/10\/2013
Distance traveled: 58.03 miles (491.18 miles total)
GPS tracks: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/260708190<\/a>
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This ride was powered by gummy bears and AC\/DC. There really wasn’t much to it \u2013 a long slow downhill into the greater Phoenix area, and then a lot of wandering through the city looking for bike-friendly streets. That’s one thing I’ll say about Phoenix \u2013 there are a lot of bike friendly streets. Some with bike lanes, some without \u2013 but nice and wide for the most part.\n<\/p>\n

My route was supposed to take me along some canal bike paths through town so I wouldn’t have to do much city biking at all. Unfortunately I ran into construction on the canal within a quarter mile of getting on it\u2026 and then I could never figure out how to get back on the canal.\n<\/p>\n

Starting tomorrow I’m onto section 2 of the southern tier. That puts me roughly 1\/3 of the way done in terms of my total 1,500 miles. Kinda exciting!\n<\/p>\n

My hosts last night were great \u2013 as usual. Cary has a great setup here. I stayed in a camping trailer they’ve got set up on their property for warmshowers guests. Cary and ‘H’ took me out for dinner last night which was awesome \u2013 I was famished!\n<\/p>\n

Cary rebuilds cars for a living with his dad. He has some great old cars that my dad would have love to seen. He’s got a ’63 corvette that he drives, a buddy’s ’53 Chevy that’s in great condition in the garage, and a ’61 vette that he’s in the process of rebuilding with his father.\n<\/p>\n

Cary and I hung out quite a bit and gave me all the bud light I could drink \u2013 even shared some of his birthday pie with me. Talk about awesome! I wish I could stay longer\u2026 but I need to get on the road.\n<\/p>\n

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Cary and the ’61 Corvette.
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Wickenburg, AZ to Phoenix, AZDate: 01\/10\/2013Distance traveled: 58.03 miles (491.18 miles total)GPS tracks: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/260708190 This ride was powered by gummy bears and AC\/DC. There really wasn’t much to it \u2013 a long slow downhill into the greater Phoenix area, and then a lot of wandering through the city looking for bike-friendly streets. That’s one thing … Continue reading Day 9: Hello, Phoenix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,293,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-to-texas-2013","category-crazyguyonabike","category-pedal-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}