{"id":6,"date":"2012-06-22T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/whiskeypapa\/here\/2012\/06\/22\/day-twenty-five-getting-close-to-home\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:16:42","slug":"day-twenty-five-getting-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/2012\/06\/22\/day-twenty-five-getting-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Twenty Five &#8211; Getting close to home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was an interesting day.\u00a0 Leaving Plainview it was overcast and there was some wind but it was from the north instead of the south wind I&#8217;ve gotten used to.\u00a0 It was actually a cold wind too.\u00a0 That combined with the cloudy skies had me reaching for my jacket and winter gloves.\u00a0 As I got close to the Texas\/New Mexico border I had to laugh at the name of the last town on the Texas side.\u00a0 Texas\/Oklahoma = Texoma, Texas\/Arkansas = Texarcana, Texas\/New Mexico = Farwell; isn&#8217;t that funny.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-RQ3rGwcNA-o\/T-R9BurF9xI\/AAAAAAAAAjk\/P5CPJQq7ZzI\/s1600\/Farwell.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-RQ3rGwcNA-o\/T-R9BurF9xI\/AAAAAAAAAjk\/P5CPJQq7ZzI\/s640\/Farwell.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I wonder if the guy that named this town so many years ago just wasn&#8217;t a very good spellar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I was a little worried that the New Mexico fires might hinder my route through the mountains but there were no road closures and just about no more smoke that I could see.\u00a0 Hopefully they&#8217;ve got those things under control, come on rain.<\/p>\n<p>The wind was kinda shifting around today but just outside Arizona I got hit by what must have been a dust devil that was invisible since there was no dust in it.\u00a0 Both hands on the handlebars please.\u00a0 That dust devil didn&#8217;t wreck me but this deep sand did.\u00a0 I missed a turn and took what my GPS (remember it has an interesting sense of humor?) said was a good road back to where I was supposed to be.\u00a0 I saw the missing asphalt but thought it didn&#8217;t look that bad &#8211; WRONG.\u00a0 Worst part was that after I got through the sandy mess, the road was closed.\u00a0 I used some more of that fancy language but vowed I wouldn&#8217;t be going back through that again unless I had no other options.\u00a0 I picked my way through the vacant lot area &#038; got back to the road.\u00a0 My adrenaline was pumping so hard that I had no idea I was going 85 mph and I think the speed limit was 60 &#8211; I put the cruise control on and tried to relax.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-d_fNuihlqpo\/T-UFDQHoWBI\/AAAAAAAAAj4\/xZeK_6a-gG0\/s1600\/Dirt+Bike.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-d_fNuihlqpo\/T-UFDQHoWBI\/AAAAAAAAAj4\/xZeK_6a-gG0\/s640\/Dirt+Bike.jpg\" width=\"512\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Took me 4  tries and some fancy language to get this picked up &#038; more fancy  language and all my dirt biking skills to ride the 75 or so feet of  remaining sand, rear tire spinning &#038; clutch smokin&#8217; the whole time.\u00a0  Nobody around to help but nobody around to point &#038; laugh either.\u00a0 Just a couple  little battle scars on the saddle bag to help tell the story, nothing  the next paint job won&#8217;t take care of.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zcZ5nmKXvYM\/T-UI93sLtdI\/AAAAAAAAAkE\/ipZXRDjBrQI\/s1600\/Longhorns.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zcZ5nmKXvYM\/T-UI93sLtdI\/AAAAAAAAAkE\/ipZXRDjBrQI\/s320\/Longhorns.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a>Today I also saw some Texas Longhorn cattle.\u00a0 I looked and looked in Texas but never did see any, now that I&#8217;m in New Mexico &#8211; here they are.\u00a0 They were all laying down when I rode up but when the white calf started walking over to the fence, mamma stood up and whacked him in the face with the side of her head and they both stood there and watched.\u00a0 Nobody else even thought about getting up.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9mrX90byFck\/T-UMDehY70I\/AAAAAAAAAkQ\/STvHQNNgxn8\/s1600\/Dish.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9mrX90byFck\/T-UMDehY70I\/AAAAAAAAAkQ\/STvHQNNgxn8\/s320\/Dish.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NRAO Very Large Aray in New Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Just a little ways past Socorro, New Mexico I started seeing all these dish antennas.\u00a0 They are spaced kinda far apart and scattered all over the place.\u00a0 Hmmm, wonder what that could be.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s NRAO &#8211; the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.\u00a0 I thought you might find it interesting so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vla.nrao.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is link to their web site.\u00a0 I checked it out but like that bar I was thinking about going into in South Carolina, (but for a different reason entirely) I was a little bit out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was an interesting day.\u00a0 Leaving Plainview it was overcast and there was some wind but it was from the north instead of the south wind I&#8217;ve gotten used to.\u00a0 It was actually a cold wind too.\u00a0 That combined with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/2012\/06\/22\/day-twenty-five-getting-close-to-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p95H-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}