{"id":2467,"date":"2025-03-26T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:36:09","slug":"getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2470\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?attachment_id=2470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2470\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3260062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The longest journey begins with a single step or so said Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. That may be so but a bicycle tour begins well before that first step with a lot of planning and packing. For a compulsive, got to have everything in order, personality like mine, this takes months as I reevaluate, reconsider and review nearly every detail and still screw up something. This time, on a trip to a warmer climate to test my new bicycle and to get in some longer distance rides, I managed to leave both my helmet and bicycle lock behind and beyond a reasonable means of getting them returned to me to me in time.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, getting replacements was within my budget, so all ended well but I still gave myself a mental tongue lashing for being so forgetful. I just hope it is not a sign of my advancing years or I might wind up leaving my dentures somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Getting every necessary item for a month of riding and camping in areas where replacements are not just an Amazon click away, into the proper sized luggage for a 35 hour transit, is a big chore and I must have packed, measure and weighed my load a dozen time before being satisfied, for now. I hope this holds true until my departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest journey begins with a single step or so said Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. That may be so but a bicycle tour begins well before that first step with a lot of planning and packing. For a compulsive, got to have everything in order, personality like mine, this takes months as I reevaluate, reconsider&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2467\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Getting Ready&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildinafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}