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<\/a><\/p>\nimmediately 680N, then 80E to Eagle Lakes for a bite of last night’s salmon while the dogs rolled<\/p>\n
in the twice-used snow after which it was over the hill to 89N, unimpeded<\/p>\n through Sierra Valley to find the gas at<\/p>\n Hallelujah Junction no more than gas in Benicia and the road out of Doyle the best it’s ever been<\/p>\n all the way to 34*…stopped soon after just after Sand Pass to eat an apple and shot a small<\/p>\n panorama. Up the desert, Smoke Creek Bridge, running tired and benumbed to<\/p>\n the Wall Spring gate at 4:08 to<\/p>\n unload, settling in…warm dry early March.<\/p>\n Monday we learned before breakfast that Country Joe MacDonald’d died with lots of clips of his famous Woodstock moment<\/a> to go along with the reminiscences…the world could use<\/p>\n some more of those kids now, more than ever…but instead they’re all glued to screens or<\/p>\n maybe at a Turning Point USA rally. As for me I went 48 miles to Empire and back<\/p>\n for tortillas [not shown] with a small stop in Gerlach,<\/p>\n windy all day<\/p>\n and home to sun,<\/p>\n space out…<\/p>\n Two days…<\/p>\n *Variously named and\/or renamed “Sand Pass Road” or worse still “Surprise Valley Road” on google and apple but, whatev’…USED to be CR34 anyways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fortunately six blocks down Military at eleven the gas at the 7-Eleven still hadn’t quite broken the five dollar barrier when I filled up to leave Sunday morning and was soon onto 780, immediately 680N, then 80E to Eagle Lakes for a bite of last night’s salmon while the dogs rolled in the twice-used snow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45518"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45564,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45518\/revisions\/45564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n