{"id":953,"date":"2020-08-05T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/?p=953"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:28:59","slug":"fake-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/2020\/08\/05\/fake-strawberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Strawberry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We’ve talked about doing the Strawberry Fields Forever<\/a> ride in Watsonville for years, but the timing has never lined up. So we took matters into our own hands and rode a modified version of it ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we started, the day was overcast and cool. We rode along many strawberry and other fruit fields, with relatively light traffic on most of the roads. There were a few challenging but short hills in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had hoped to get closer to the big climb before lunch, but ended up stopping just off an intersection. It was fine, but a bit more exposed than ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After lunch we started the main climb along Mt Madonna. There was a section near the start with a flagger and one-way traffic. These aren’t a ton of fun when uphill, since we’re super slow, but fortunately it was pretty short and quiet. The road quickly got even more quiet and forested. It was quite lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hill itself was difficult. I haven’t been biking enough, and eventually Anne took Max in his trailer, so she had both kids. We walked some of the way. But eventually we got to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The loop back around was hillier then I expected. I took Max back, who pedals the most furiously on the downhills. For some of the return we rode on the same roads as on the West Coast trip<\/a>. I remember this day, but the specific roads didn’t feel familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We got back to the car somewhat late, but well before dark. A successful, if tiring, ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve talked about doing the Strawberry Fields Forever ride in Watsonville for years, but the timing has never lined up. So we took matters into our own hands and rode a modified version of it ourselves. As we started, the day was overcast and cool. We rode along many strawberry and other fruit fields, with … Continue reading Fake Strawberry<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}