{"id":6428,"date":"2015-10-27T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rswproductions.net\/travels\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2019-03-26T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:17:54","slug":"natchez-trace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"Natchez Trace &#8211; southern hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/usps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6441\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/usps.jpg\" alt=\"usps\" width=\"960\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/usps.jpg 960w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/usps-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>Ahhhhhhhhh . . . to be retired \u00a0. . . and flexible.<\/p>\n<p>It was starting to get a little chilly in Madison towards late October so some of the boys thought it was time for a southern road trip. How about biking the Natchez Trace parkway?\u00a0 The trace is a 450 mile paved parkway, similar to the Blue Ridge Parkway, owned and operated by the US Park Service. <a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hurricanepatricia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6443\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hurricanepatricia.jpg\" alt=\"hurricanepatricia\" width=\"635\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hurricanepatricia.jpg 635w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hurricanepatricia-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 We set the dates and were ready to load the van when Hurricane Patricia, the largest hurricane EVER recorded in the Pacific came ashore in Mexico . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6431\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather1000.jpg\" alt=\"weather1000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather1000-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 The hurricane was expected to &#8216;fizzle&#8217; relatively quickly when it slammed into the Mexican mountains. The heavy rain associated with the hurricane was expected to affect the area for several days . . . INCLUDING THE AREA WE WOULD BE BIKING THROUGH.<a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather2_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6430\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather2_1000.jpg\" alt=\"weather2_1000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather2_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/weather2_1000-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Two days later it was till raising havoc in the southern US so it&#8217;s a good thing we postponed our travel date by three days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/noaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6445\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/noaa.jpg\" alt=\"noaa\" width=\"1149\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/noaa.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/noaa-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/noaa-1024x278.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px\" \/><\/a>Yippee . . . we plan on driving down on Wednesday and start biking Thursday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/traci1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6453\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/traci1.jpg\" alt=\"traci1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/traci1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/traci1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just for insurance though . . . Traci Trek got a new set of &#8220;Clip On &#8211; Clip Off&#8217; fenders!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhhhhhhhh . . . to be retired \u00a0. . . and flexible. It was starting to get a little chilly in Madison towards late October so some of the boys thought it was time for a southern road trip. How about biking the Natchez Trace parkway?\u00a0 The trace is a 450 mile paved parkway, similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=6428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Natchez Trace &#8211; southern hospitality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428"}],"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=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}