{"id":21579,"date":"2019-12-17T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wohutravels.us\/?p=21579"},"modified":"2020-01-01T02:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T08:58:45","slug":"polar-vortex-approaching-head-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=21579","title":{"rendered":". . . Polar Vortex approaching . . . head south!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a three day bike ride to celebrate her birthday and riding RAGBRAI this summer, emJay was jazzed about her new bike and taking more trips, like I have in the past. With her retirement in November\u00a0 from The Nature Conservancy, after a 38 year career, that dream became a reality!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emjaytruck2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"emjaytruck2\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emjaytruck2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"emjaytruck2\" width=\"1004\" height=\"754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hitching a ride on RAGBRAI on the way across Iowa???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mjtruck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"mjtruck\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mjtruck_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"mjtruck\" width=\"1004\" height=\"653\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent much of last winter riding in Thailand\u00a0 and had such a great time we decided to head back there this year. The mild temps have afforded us training ride weather through November and December . . . in fact the\u00a0 photo above was take on a training ride on Christmas day . . . 50 degrees . . . unlike the \u201350 degree wind chill the folks in the Midwest experience last January when the first of several \u2018Polar Vortexes\u2019 descended across Wisconsin. Not going to be a problem for us this year. . .<\/p>\n<p>. . . as we start pedaling in the mountain region of northern Thailand . . .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21589 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/thailandroute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"1749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/thailandroute.jpg 751w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/thailandroute-129x300.jpg 129w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/thailandroute-440x1024.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . and end on the beaches of the Andaman Sea!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a three day bike ride to celebrate her birthday and riding RAGBRAI this summer, emJay was jazzed about her new bike and taking more trips, like I have in the past. With her retirement in November\u00a0 from The Nature Conservancy, after a 38 year career, that dream became a reality!!! Hitching a ride on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=21579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">. . . Polar Vortex approaching . . . head south!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21639,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions\/21639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}