{"id":3342,"date":"2009-07-08T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2009-07-08T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T16:16:59","slug":"woo-hoo-were-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/07\/08\/woo-hoo-were-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo-hoo, We&#8217;re No. 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:155px; float:right; margin-left:14px; margin:bottom:14px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripbase.com\/awards\/walking\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tripbase.com\/awards\/images\/TB_walking_2.jpg\" alt=\"No. 2 in Tripbase Walking\/Backpacking blog awards\" width=\"155\" height=\"204\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tripbase.com is <del>drumming up free publicity from link-hungry bloggers<\/del> spreading the word about its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripbase.com\/awards\/\">series of awards<\/a> for notable travel-related blogs. Two-Heel Drive ranks No. 2 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripbase.com\/awards\/walking\/index.html\">walking-backpacking category<\/a>, bested only by a guy attempting <a href=\" http:\/\/goliath.mail2web.com\/ \"> 36,000 miles, 4 continents, 25 countries, crossing a frozen sea, 6 deserts, 7 mountain ranges <\/a> over 12 years. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing a few more weekenders to the Sierra would not have pushed me over the top. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMore good news: California is oversubscribed in the rankings. <a href=\"http:\/\/gambolinman.blogspot.com\/ \">Gambolin&#8217; Man<\/a> comes in at No. 4 and <a href=\"http:\/\/northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com\/blog\/ \">John Soares<\/a> rates as a finalist (as does <a href=\" http:\/\/besthike.wordpress.com\/ \">Rick<\/a> of Best Hikes, who has covered far more cool California trails than I have.) Proof that it&#8217;s not where you go, it&#8217;s how you blog it: all these guys have got way, way more serious trail miles under their shoes.  <\/p>\n<p>But anyway: congrats to all who won a place in the rankings. Many quality blogs were left out of the rankings &#8212; particularly the lightweight backpacking blogs in the UK.  And where is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhiker.com\/\">Modern Hiker<\/a>, the king of L.A. hiking? (Who knows, you might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?feature=moby&#038;search_query=kevin+bacon+pikes+peak&#038;search_type=&#038;aq=f\">bump into Kevin Bacon<\/a> on one of his featured trails?)<\/p>\n<p> These things are never fair, of course. But I&#8217;m not returning my Oscar, all the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripbase.com is drumming up free publicity from link-hungry bloggers spreading the word about its series of awards for notable travel-related blogs. Two-Heel Drive ranks No. 2 in the walking-backpacking category, bested only by a guy attempting 36,000 miles, 4 continents,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/07\/08\/woo-hoo-were-no-2\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}