{"id":1321,"date":"2010-07-01T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/07\/01\/massive-road-trip-day-1\/"},"modified":"2010-07-01T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:40:02","slug":"massive-road-trip-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/07\/01\/massive-road-trip-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive road trip: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And today, the adventure began. Tom &#038; I left the house this morning for the first leg of our 3 week road trip. <\/p>\n<p>Today was mostly spent on I-94, about 400 miles crossing western Minnesota and almost all of North Dakota. NoDak greeted us with a monster SW wind, but only 3 wind turbines to be seen as we crossed all that flat. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re camping tonight at Roosevelt National Park. It&#8217;s hotter than heck here, so we&#8217;re hiding in a pizza joint with A\/C and wifi. Got the tent set up before dinner, though, &#038; saw many prairie dogs &#038; a pair of wild horses. <\/p>\n<p>After this little break we&#8217;re going out driving\/hiking for a bit before we lose the light. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I hit a crow in flight with the bumper while doing 60! He was essentially unable to make headway into the wind. A first in several decades of driving. <\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/driving\/\" title=\"driving\">driving<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/north-dakota\/\" title=\"North Dakota\">North Dakota<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/roosevelt-national-park\/\" title=\"Roosevelt National Park\">Roosevelt National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/thomas\/\" title=\"Thomas\">Thomas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/travel\/\" title=\"travel\">travel<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/07\/03\/massive-road-trip-day-2-with-pictures\/\" title=\"Massive road trip, day 2 &#8211; with pictures! 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NoDak greeted us with a monster SW wind, but only 3 wind turbines to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/07\/01\/massive-road-trip-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massive road trip: Day 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[587,586,585,490,38],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1322,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/07\/03\/massive-road-trip-day-2-with-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":0},"title":"Massive road trip, day 2 &#8211; with pictures!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"3 Jul 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Another fine day! 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