{"id":7,"date":"2012-06-21T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/whiskeypapa\/here\/2012\/06\/21\/day-twenty-four\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:16:36","slug":"day-twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/2012\/06\/21\/day-twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Twenty Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xpdRDkRyM54\/T-Jx6Xs0SfI\/AAAAAAAAAjY\/0M-zPORIdSA\/s1600\/LY.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xpdRDkRyM54\/T-Jx6Xs0SfI\/AAAAAAAAAjY\/0M-zPORIdSA\/s200\/LY.jpg\" width=\"179\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Leaving Oklahoma City this morning I turned south for about 100 miles to Ardmore.\u00a0 There I can get all the RAM mount parts I need to get my GPS mount back where it needs to be.\u00a0 The folks at GPS City were very accommodating and I got everything I needed and more.\u00a0 It took me about 15 minutes to get everything installed and I was headed west.\u00a0 One of the extra things I got was a mount for my iPhone.\u00a0 I doubt that I&#8217;ll use it much on the bike but it&#8217;s a universal kinda deal &#038; I can use it anywhere.\u00a0 However, I did use the front facing camera to take this shot while I was riding&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The wind was blowing again today but it doesn&#8217;t bother me as much as it used to.\u00a0 I figured out a way to adjust my position on the bike and it makes things much easier.\u00a0 Heck, when I finally get out of the wind I think I&#8217;m going to miss it; it&#8217;s been my constant companion since I left Wisconsin three days ago.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-5J1mxdjbAV0\/T-JqI6QqISI\/AAAAAAAAAjM\/I2P_c3eLFmM\/s640\/Cattle.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The wind today was strong enough that these cattle decided standing wasn&#8217;t worth the effort so they laid down.\u00a0 Most of the ones that are standing were lying down but when I stopped and got off the bike they got curious.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>After I got my GPS all squared away I looked at a map and figured I&#8217;d make it to Clovis, New Mexico; I missed that by about 90 miles.\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay though because I needed a short and easy day.\u00a0 I also don&#8217;t go as late in the day when I&#8217;m headed westbound.\u00a0 Something I&#8217;ve always tried to avoid is riding\/driving into a setting sun.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bad time of day for everyone on the road &#038; on a bike you really multiply the possibility you are going to have a problem.\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather start before the sun comes up if necessary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So &#8211; I&#8217;m cooling off and catching up in Plainview, Texas.\u00a0 I was wondering how the town got its name when it hit me.\u00a0 Plainview = plain+view, and that&#8217;s what you get here.\u00a0 The only thing that limits your view of the surrounding plains is the curvature of the earth.\u00a0 Now you might think that makes for some pretty boring riding but not for me.\u00a0 I wonder as I&#8217;m looking at the farm land &#038; associated trappings &#8211; are those people struggling to make it like we see on the news or are they doing fine.\u00a0 Is that silo full or empty, corn or wheat or something else.\u00a0 Are all those pieces of farm equipment rusting away just slowly going back to the earth or are they actually used once or twice a year and just too much trouble to paint &#8211; and if they are used &#8211; what is their function?\u00a0 Okay &#8211; you&#8217;re right, it does get boring after a few hundred miles but the fact that I mostly have the road to myself more than makes up for it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=0osKkUuuu7LlNoDKo8zUsFmO9FgQtAhO8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to track my progress.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Oklahoma City this morning I turned south for about 100 miles to Ardmore.\u00a0 There I can get all the RAM mount parts I need to get my GPS mount back where it needs to be.\u00a0 The folks at GPS &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/2012\/06\/21\/day-twenty-four\/\">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-7","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-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}