{"id":744,"date":"2011-07-31T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=744"},"modified":"2011-07-31T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T00:28:53","slug":"road-trippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Road trippin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the road trip has come to an end.\u00a0 Yesterday was a long long day.\u00a0 I spent about 10 hours on the road with very minimal stops.\u00a0 It was all easy driving with 80% of it just following I5.\u00a0 I only had to really do anything once we got double digit miles from San Fran.\u00a0 Luckily most of it was easy to navigate as Brad was sleeping instead of navigating.<\/p>\n<p>Due to making good time we did make a late lunch stop in the Napa for a quick sandwhich (love the fact you can buy fresh made to order sandwhiches in supermarkets) and a stop at one random winery.\u00a0 $10 later and 5 tastes of wine and I&#8217;ve ticked another thing off the list.<\/p>\n<p>It gave me a good buzz for the final drive into San Fran.\u00a0 I was excited!\u00a0 But before I go through my first impressions of San Fran, let&#8217;s discuss gas stations here in the USA.\u00a0 For some dumb reason you only have two options of payment.\u00a0 Credit card at the pump or prepaid cash.\u00a0 When your trying to just fill the tank cash is no good.\u00a0 So you need to use card.\u00a0 But the pumps require a 5 digit zip code.\u00a0 Therefore international cards aren&#8217;t accepted.\u00a0 Some stations will hold your ID and card while you fill, some are cash only.\u00a0 Typical nonsense.\u00a0 It made life a little tough at times, but I survived.<\/p>\n<p>San Fran&#8230; wow.\u00a0 The bay is beautiful (well what I saw of it from I80 and the Bay Bridge).\u00a0 The city is hilly and definately going to work the calves, so going to focus on my legs in the gym for a bit.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know what I&#8217;m going to see yet, but I should have a better idea later today.\u00a0 There is a whole foods around the corner from my hotel so I can enjoy good food if need be.\u00a0 But here is to arriving alive in one piece after 980 miles on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Current Location: Dotties True Blue Cafe, San Francisco<br \/>\nCountries: 3<br \/>\nCanadian Provinces: 2<br \/>\nUS States: 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the road trip has come to an end.\u00a0 Yesterday was a long long day.\u00a0 I spent about 10 hours on the road with very minimal stops.\u00a0 It was all easy driving with 80% of it just following I5.\u00a0 I only had to really do anything once we got double digit miles from San Fran.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-rtw-in-66-days","category-travelling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-c0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}