{"id":1072,"date":"2018-11-25T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?page_id=1072"},"modified":"2018-12-02T01:13:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T06:13:31","slug":"lewis-and-clarke-expedition-chapter-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition\/lc\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition-chapter-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis and Clarke Expedition Chapter 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chapter 21<\/h1>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s going to be cool today. I&#8217;m afraid the rest of the ride today will be much like yesterday evening. We&#8217;ve got to do another 500+ miles in bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was somewhere between the hotel room and the lobby that I first thought, &#8220;You know, for a couple of hundred dollars we could ship these motorcycles and take a plane home!!!&#8221; After a hundred miles, it was too late for any of that&#8230; so we pressed on&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We made it to <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/az7keY1fxQ92\">Salina, Kansas<\/a> today, 442 miles on what has got to be the most boring road in America. To top it all off, I think we stayed in the dumpiest hotel on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas is nothing but a sea of land. I-70 is very straight and mostly flat where the only thing that really changes is the altitude.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time on the trip I took no pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow dad and I continue toward Saint Louis, Missouri where we will part ways then head on to our respective homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition\/\">Home<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition-chapter-20\/\">Previous chapter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition-chapter-22\/\">Next chapter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Main.JohnWesterman &#8211; Published 19 Aug 2004<\/p>\n<p>Media from today:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1395\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/GoldentoSalina_Page_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1395\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/GoldentoSalina_Page_1-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/GoldentoSalina_Page_1-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/GoldentoSalina_Page_1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/GoldentoSalina_Page_1-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/GoldentoSalina_Page_1.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Route map for today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1396\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/hightoday20040819.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1396\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/hightoday20040819.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highs today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1397\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface20040819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1397\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface20040819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface20040819.jpg 600w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface20040819-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surface weather today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1398\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/WX20040819.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1398\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/WX20040819.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doppler Radar Summary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 21 Well, it&#8217;s going to be cool today. I&#8217;m afraid the rest of the ride today will be much like yesterday evening. We&#8217;ve got to do another 500+ miles in bad weather. I think it was somewhere between the hotel room and the lobby that I first thought, &#8220;You know, for a couple of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition\/lc\/lewis-and-clarke-expedition-chapter-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lewis and Clarke Expedition Chapter 21&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1025,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072\/revisions\/1480"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}