{"id":674,"date":"2010-07-05T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=674"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:00:01","slug":"two-more-wheels-than-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/two-more-wheels-than-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more wheels than usual…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray! I managed to get in on the ATV tour<\/a> I was hoping for. I was worried about them not having room, but it turns out that since it was the day before<\/em> the July 4 holiday, and the off-season… there were only 4 of us on the ride, including the leader.<\/p>\n

Woke up early Saturday, got some gas, and set the cruise control… almost 2 hours later I pulled into the parking lot<\/a> where the team was already offloading the quads.<\/p>\n

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Filled out some paperwork, grabbed helmet\/gloves and some water and snacks, then we were led through a brief exercise to make sure we knew how to get around \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Then we were off! Crawling down the sand tracks and through the forest:<\/p>\n

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About 10 miles later we stopped for a quick drink, then headed out again.<\/p>\n

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We only found one fallen tree too large to pull out of the way, and few puddles. The entire trail was pure sand the entire trip: not a root or rock in site:<\/p>\n

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A few times we came across other quads (most utility, and a couple sport), but no dirtbikes. We could always see them coming well in advance and everyone was keeping to safe speeds:<\/p>\n

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Then another quick break in a campsite (that’s apparently packed in the regular season) then we headed back to the lot, stopping for some group photos…<\/p>\n

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…and “action shots” through the largest puddle we could find \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I had a great time, and it was nice to be back out on some sort of ORV… since my dirtbike has been parked for a month now. Hopefully I’ll get to go out again this weekend: weather looks hot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hooray! I managed to get in on the ATV tour I was hoping for. I was worried about them not having room, but it turns out that since it was the day before the July 4 holiday, and the off-season… Continue reading Two more wheels than usual…<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}