{"id":591,"date":"2014-11-15T22:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/?p=591"},"modified":"2021-02-16T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:03:34","slug":"from-the-drivers-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/from-the-drivers-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Driver&#8217;s Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from another cross-country trip. This journey started from home in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Phoenix. However, I took a roundabout way: directly to Reno, through Yosemite NP, a quick stopover in Long Beach, down to San Diego, detour to Joshua Tree NP and finally to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>In all I drove 3600 miles and most of these were on our amazing interstate highways. Although I drove solo, I was not alone on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see below, here are some of the companions that I met along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3971.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3971s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3975.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3975s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3976.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3976s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3977.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3977s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3978.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3978s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3979.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3979s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4037.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4037s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4188.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4188s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4189.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4189s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4190.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4190s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4191s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4192.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_4192s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3963.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/images\/road\/IMG_3963s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That wraps up another enjoyable 3600 mile drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from another cross-country trip. This journey started from home in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Phoenix. However, I took a roundabout way: directly to Reno, through Yosemite NP, a quick stopover in Long Beach, down to San Diego, detour to Joshua Tree NP and finally to Phoenix. In all I drove 3600 miles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/from-the-drivers-seat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Driver&#8217;s Seat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,92],"tags":[84,70,241,240],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel","tag-cross-country","tag-driving","tag-highway","tag-trucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}