{"id":182,"date":"2018-03-01T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyvia.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:32:45","slug":"any-day-out-of-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Any day out of the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>25 February, 2018 \u2013 El Calafate to Gobernador Gregores via motorcycle, 331 km \/ 206 miles, 45 in gravel \u2013 2-minute read<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had a coworker who used to say, when asked how he was, &#8220;At my age, any day out of the ground is a good day.&#8221; Today I dumped the bike, but we didn&#8217;t get hurt; it was a good day.<\/p>\n<p>We had planned on traveling to Perito Moreno town today; instead we covered half that distance. The road wasn&#8217;t just dirt, which I expected, but was deep gravel &#8211; gravel piled in furrows, sometimes 8 inches deep, gravel so loose that pushing the bike across it was difficult, much less riding. And with occasional cross winds gusting at 40 mph, I&#8217;m grateful to have only dumped the bike once.<\/p>\n<p>I felt good about today till a few minutes ago, when a Google streetview image showed gravel further up our route. Now I&#8217;m trying to figure out whether the road has been paved since, and what I can do to avoid another day like today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\" class=\"size-full\" data-wp_upload_id=\"x-coredata:\/\/1D21C86A-1BEC-4D91-AE85-06B26550B84D\/Media\/p150\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\" class=\"size-full\" data-wp_upload_id=\"x-coredata:\/\/1D21C86A-1BEC-4D91-AE85-06B26550B84D\/Media\/p151\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\" class=\"size-full\" data-wp_upload_id=\"x-coredata:\/\/1D21C86A-1BEC-4D91-AE85-06B26550B84D\/Media\/p152\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\" class=\"size-full\" data-wp_upload_id=\"x-coredata:\/\/1D21C86A-1BEC-4D91-AE85-06B26550B84D\/Media\/p153\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\" class=\"size-full\" data-wp_upload_id=\"x-coredata:\/\/1D21C86A-1BEC-4D91-AE85-06B26550B84D\/Media\/p154\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\" class=\"size-full\" data-wp_upload_id=\"x-coredata:\/\/1D21C86A-1BEC-4D91-AE85-06B26550B84D\/Media\/p155\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"placeholder:\/\/\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3953.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-181\" height=\"1136\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3953.jpg 640w, https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3953-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3953-577x1024.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 February, 2018 \u2013 El Calafate to Gobernador Gregores via motorcycle, 331 km \/ 206 miles, 45 in gravel \u2013 2-minute read I had a coworker who used to say, when asked how he was, &#8220;At my age, any day out of the ground is a good day.&#8221; Today I dumped the bike, but we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/?p=182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Any day out of the ground&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}