{"id":2630,"date":"2025-03-28T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:01:04","slug":"one-last-ride-before-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"One Last Ride Before Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000003622.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2631\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000003622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With only a few days remaining before I fly out and some bad weather expected between now and then, I took advantage of a fairly calm moment to get in one last and somewhat short ride on my fat bike. Rather  than subject any of my bikes to the salty local roads, I took one of my favourite roads less traveled. However, calling it a road is somewhat misleading. <\/p>\n<p>In a strictly legal sense it is a road but one where where most vehicles fear to tread. Originally it was a fire department access but even that use is obsolete these days. However, if you don&#8217;t mind riding through some streams and over a couple of bridges that would not look out of place in an Indiana Jones movie, it is doable on a fat bike. Not a bad ride with my dog giving it his highest, two paws up, rating. The roads I encounter in Africa will likely be an improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only a few days remaining before I fly out and some bad weather expected between now and then, I took advantage of a fairly calm moment to get in one last and somewhat short ride on my fat bike. Rather than subject any of my bikes to the salty local roads, I took one&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2630\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;One Last Ride Before Leaving&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-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildinafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}