{"id":5097,"date":"2018-01-04T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2018-01-04T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T23:02:17","slug":"road-diary-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/road-diary-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Road diary, day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bombogenesis. Noreaster. Bomb cyclone. Polar vortex. These are none of the words you can use to describe the first day of our return trip to Texas. After a wonderful 5 days of play and rest wtlith family in northern Wisconsin, Jodi and I loaded up the car with bags and cats and hit the road for home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1608187534869390539368112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1608187534869390539368112.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1608187534869390539368112.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1608187534869390539368112-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1608187534869390539368112-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1608187534869390539368112-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uneventful. Now THAT is a word that applies. The weather was cold but generally clear, even with overcast skies. But we had blue sunny skies, too. No real snow fell on the drive. We went from -13F when we started to 10F by the time we hit Des Moines at 3:30pm. No bad traffic. No major road construction. We are far west of the weather excitement pummeling the east coast today. It shows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_162344148338218692959927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_162344148338218692959927.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_162344148338218692959927.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_162344148338218692959927-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_162344148338218692959927-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_162344148338218692959927-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_163305_13434227355912980563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_163305_13434227355912980563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5095 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_163305_13434227355912980563.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_163305_13434227355912980563-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_163305_13434227355912980563-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_163305_13434227355912980563-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1632546422215952977100328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1632546422215952977100328.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5094 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1632546422215952977100328.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1632546422215952977100328-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1632546422215952977100328-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1632546422215952977100328-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1630541077132982683050838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1630541077132982683050838.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5093 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1630541077132982683050838.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1630541077132982683050838-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1630541077132982683050838-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_1630541077132982683050838-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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Noreaster. Bomb cyclone. Polar vortex. These are none of the words you can use to describe the first day of our return trip to Texas. After a wonderful 5 days of play and rest wtlith family in northern Wisconsin, Jodi and I loaded up the car with bags and cats and hit the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-journal","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_20180104_16262582480010597805941.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}