{"id":2681,"date":"2025-04-11T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:11:21","slug":"on-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"On the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April 8, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2682\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250408_083506630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-638\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250408_083506630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders of a different sort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I am riding on the Elephant Highway, elephants are far from the sort of animal life I am seeing. While they are definitely here, as proven by the piles of dung I have to zig-zag around, this primarily appears to be ranch country. Cattle, goats, horses and donkeys are far more likely to be seen. The cattle are basically free range, occasionally blocking the highway and not particularly interested in moving aside for a cyclist. However, the sound of car tires on pavement a kilometer away usually sends them hustling off onto the wide grassy sidelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250408_083430557.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250408_083430557.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other than farm animals, there is abundant insect life here and they often like to hitch a ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_125756-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_125756-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"737\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_125842.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_125842.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"775\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2685\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 2025 While I am riding on the Elephant Highway, elephants are far from the sort of animal life I am seeing. While they are definitely here, as proven by the piles of dung I have to zig-zag around, this primarily appears to be ranch country. Cattle, goats, horses and donkeys are far more&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=2681\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;On the Range&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-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildinafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","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=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}