{"id":432,"date":"2016-03-12T21:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=432"},"modified":"2018-05-04T03:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:18:01","slug":"freeway-to-bike-trails-day-5-from-carson-to-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"WA and OR: Day 5 from Carson to Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~60 miles\/2300ft climb (Day 5 for our <a href=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=289\" target=\"_blank\">5 day trip <\/a>from Seattle to Portland via Yakima).<\/p>\n<p>Day 5 was easier than the first three days too, especially because we skipped a big hill near Latourell, OR due to construction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-from-2016-03-12-12-06-09.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-from-2016-03-12-12-06-09.png\" alt=\"Day 5\" width=\"729\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bridge of the Gods<\/strong>: I think I saw this bridge in the movie <em>Wild<\/em>. I didn&#8217;t expect the crossing to be so scary. You can see through the bridge the river way down below and while I&#8217;m usually afraid of heights, I tried not to look down while I was on the bridge. I think we paid 50 cents or so for the bike toll after we crossed the bridge into the Oregon side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/small2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/small2.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge of the Gods\" width=\"832\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highway riding<\/strong>: Although we got to skip ~700ft climbing because the road was closed for construction work in Latourell, we had to ride on a freeway for a while. The shoulder is huge and it was ok to ride but the cars were riding super fast and some cars even honked at us. We were only on it for a few exits but it was not pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>Going microbrewery hopping in Portland was loads of fun. We took a train back the next day (no need for a bike box between Portland and Seattle).<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this was a really, really great trip. The weather was perfect throughout the trip. I got to see many parts of the state and experience bike touring on the west coast. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~60 miles\/2300ft climb (Day 5 for our 5 day trip from Seattle to Portland via Yakima). Day 5 was easier than the first three days too, especially because we skipped a big hill near Latourell, OR due to construction. Bridge of the Gods: I think I saw this bridge in the movie Wild. I didn&#8217;t&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=432\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike","tag-or","tag-wa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}