{"id":2420,"date":"2019-06-03T07:27:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2019-06-20T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:09:41","slug":"day-44-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/06\/03\/day-44-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 44: on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our plan now has changed. In Kennedy Meadows we met up again with O G (stands for Original Gangster because of his old style external frame backpack). OG is a guy the same age as Rob. We have been hiking at a similar pace since Mexico and leapfrogging every few days.<\/p>\n<p>OG had similarly been planning to skip north to a less snowy section, but his plan was to go to Portland where his wife&#8217;s sister lives, then hike south from the Oregon\/Washington border.<\/p>\n<p>After much discussion we have decided to travel together with him and hike together at least for a while. We will share a car rental and are driving from Ridgecrest to Portland (18 hours 1535 km). This will be much cheaper and quicker than bus and train.<\/p>\n<p>We have just picked up some resupply packages from Lake Isabella and stopped to get a milkshake from the recommended Nelda&#8217;s Diner. Great<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"2422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/06\/03\/day-44-on-the-road\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1366,544\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377-300x119.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377-1024x408.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2422 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377.jpeg\" width=\"1366\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377-300x119.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377-768x306.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dscpdc_0000_burst20190603202502941-012565471315584570377-1024x408.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s a long haul up the I5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our plan now has changed. In Kennedy Meadows we met up again with O G (stands for Original Gangster because of his old style external frame backpack). OG is a guy the same age as Rob. We have been hiking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0145-01.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-D2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}