{"id":282,"date":"2018-03-05T03:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T03:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2018-09-23T23:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T23:56:21","slug":"first-meeting-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"First Meeting: New Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>March 4, 2018<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Map-meeting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Map-meeting1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"649\" class=\"size-large wp-image-283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Map-meeting1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Map-meeting1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Map-meeting1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Map-meeting1.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Group Meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our group assembled today at the Point Loma Hostel. Some had already been here for a few days and had established relationships. Along with a few others I arrived in the afternoon. The group spans about two decades of ages and all have a good deal of cycling experience. A very friendly and welcoming bunch. After some get acquainted conversations and checking out each other&#8217;s bicycles we relaxed and waited for our official beginning at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Cammie and Kelly, our tour leaders from Adventure Cycling, arrived right on time and after a brief meeting fixed a great dinner for the group. As we go through the weeks we will all take turns exercising our culinary muscles. Later we sat down for our daily map meeting to go over tomorrow&#8217;s route. The evening ended with a toast to fellowship, friendship, a safe and interesting ride and an epic journey.<\/p>\n<p>Dale, Pete, Annette, Jim, Cammie, Kelly, Barb, Bill, Jorge, Marianna, Kevin, John and Alan will be my companions for the next 54 days. I look forward to the adventure we will share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 4, 2018 Our group assembled today at the Point Loma Hostel. Some had already been here for a few days and had established relationships. Along with a few others I arrived in the afternoon. The group spans about two decades of ages and all have a good deal of cycling experience. A very friendly&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/?p=282\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;First Meeting: New Friends&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-across-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idoitoutdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}