{"id":424,"date":"2016-05-15T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/?p=424"},"modified":"2016-05-15T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T06:24:39","slug":"driving-from-eugene-or-to-vancouver-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/2016\/05\/15\/driving-from-eugene-or-to-vancouver-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving from Eugene, OR to Vancouver, BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"travelogue\"\r\nprefix=\"\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/\"\r\ngeneralInfo=\"eyJzdGFydF90aW1lIjoxNDYzMzcwMTQwLCJzdGFydF9kYXkiOjE0NjMyOTU2MDAsInN0YXJ0X2xhdGxuZyI6WzQ5LjI4MDkzNjEsLTEyMy4wNDQ5MjM4XX0=\"><\/div>\r\n      \n<p>Today was the second and final driving day, taking us to the start point in Vancouver. We actually got loaded back up and rolling before 9, which was very pleasing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was raining for most of the day, although never very hard. Much of the drive was less scenic than yesterday, although with moments of niceness.<\/p>\n<p>Although we tried to avoid it, we did stop for gas. Oregon&#8217;s no-self-service rule weirds me out. We stopped, didn&#8217;t see an attendant, I waited a bit, and wondered if I didn&#8217;t understand all the nuances. I got out and started opening the gas cap, when the attendant ran out from the store to help me. Ruth asked why he was doing the gas, but I couldn&#8217;t come up with a convincing explanation. Yup, still weird.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth&#8217;s friend Grace moved to Seattle a few months ago, so we stopped to visit for a bit. While Ruth played, Anne, Max, and I got a tour of their new digs. Pretty spiffy. When it was time to go, Ruth told Grace that maybe we could visit again the next time we got for a Big Bike Ride. I&#8217;m not sure we&#8217;ll be doing this particular tour again soon.<\/p>\n<p>Things started getting scenic again as we approached the Canadian border. It keeps getting more real that we&#8217;re actually doing this ride. The border agent asked us some questions about the tour. I&#8217;m not sure how much she was asking in her official capacity, and how much she was just curious. In any case, we got through without an issue.<\/p>\n<p>The kids did well in the car. Max would randomly find a toy dinosaur and walk it around the carseat, growling. Ruth spent a lot of the day coloring. We didn&#8217;t get any calls for an emergency potty stop. Whining was kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>When we got to the hotel, we parked a bit away so Anne could check in and scout it out. She came back a bit later with Gramma. They took the bikes of the roof so the van could go in the underground lot, and we unloaded.<\/p>\n<p>Now, time for dinner, bedtime for the kids, and prep for tomorrow. Exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the second and final driving day, taking us to the start point in Vancouver. We actually got loaded back up and rolling before 9, which was very pleasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-west-coast-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}