{"id":1208,"date":"2007-05-16T06:10:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2007-12-03T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T18:33:42","slug":"a-pct-dispatch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/16\/a-pct-dispatch-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A PCT dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=180909\">Cloudspotter, at mile 212.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From behind me, I heard a voice, &#8220;Where do you need to go?&#8221;<br \/>\nI tried to smile in order to hide the deer-in-the-headlights feeling that coursed through my veins. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get a ride back to the Pacific Crest Trail. It&#8217;s about four and a half miles east of here.&#8221; I was trying to remember details to be as forthcoming as possible about our destination. &#8220;The trail goes under the freeway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He smiled, &#8220;I should probably talk to my wife, but I think we can probably help you out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I professed my undying gratitude, as we followed the man to his car, and I meant it. His wife agreed, and Thunder and I crawled into their car. They introduced themselves as Tim and Karen. Tim said they had a tendency towards helping wayward souls like Thunder and myself. As they dropped us off on a frontage road by the I-10 underpass, we thanked them again for their help.<br \/>\nUnder the I-10, Ricola, NAFTA, and A-Train joined our crowd. An ice chest squatted between the couches filled with beer, soda, Gatorade, and raisins, a sign that some trail magic had found its way to our motley crew. According to Angelhair, a woman dropped the chest off on the side of the road with a wave and drove off with nothing else said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudspotter, at mile 212. From behind me, I heard a voice, &#8220;Where do you need to go?&#8221; I tried to smile in order to hide the deer-in-the-headlights feeling that coursed through my veins. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get a ride back&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/16\/a-pct-dispatch-5\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[153,107],"tags":[150,512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}