{"id":158,"date":"2010-05-31T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/?p=158"},"modified":"2010-06-01T05:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T05:18:28","slug":"safe-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Safe Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

This will be a short post because I feel so tired right now. My body thinks it’s 4:00am but here in Astoria it’s only 8:00pm.<\/p>\n

We arrived in Portland on time yesterday\u00a0after an uneventful trip and thankfully our bikes made the trip without sustaining any damage. As part of the preparation for this trip I had managed to find some members of the International Police Association (IPA) who were willing to assist us on our arrival. We were met at the airport by Brian Dale, a serving police officer at Portland and IPA member. Brain who took us back to\u00a0his home where we were able to unpacked the bikes in comfort\u00a0and later he helped us sort out some bits we needed to buy for the ride as well as giving us a good meal and hot shower.<\/p>\n

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Brian & Chris loading the bikes<\/p><\/div>\n

Tod, good friend of Brain’s, offered us the use of his beach house for the night. The house is just north of Astoria, so later on Sunday Brian\u00a0drove us there in heavy rain\u00a0but a\u00a0fatal accident on the route delayed us by nearly 2 hours and we arrived just as it was getting dark. The beach house was just great and we felt much better after a good night sleep. This morning we had a huge breakfast in a local diner and we\u00a0were amazed at the size of the portions being served. The food was really excellent.<\/p>\n

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The Beach House<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Saying<\/a>

Saying goodbye to Brian and his son<\/p><\/div>\n

Brain then took us to Astoria and dropped us off at the home of Dan & Karen Leedom\u00a0(also IPA)\u00a0who live very close to the start of the ride. We\u00a0arrived with Dan & Karen at about 11:00am and\u00a0will be staying with them until we pedal off first thing on Tuesday morning (tomorrow). We’ve had a lovely day in Astoria and Dan & Karen have really looked after us and showed us around their very charming town. The view from ‘The Column’ is really spectacular.<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/a>

Karen, Chris & Dan<\/p><\/div>\n

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View across Astoria from The Column<\/p><\/div>\n

The help\u00a0and hospitality we have received from Brain and\u00a0\u00a0Dan & Karen has been incredible and we can’t thank them enough. Without their help getting to\u00a0the start of this ride would have been very difficult. They have been so welcoming and really put themselves out to help us. As a result we are well rested, well fed, feel very relaxed\u00a0and are ready\u00a0to start the ride. We will also leave here with some great memories and new friends. However swapping all this for a tent is going to be a shock! So much for this being a short post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will be a short post because I feel so tired right now. My body thinks it’s 4:00am but here in Astoria it’s only 8:00pm. We arrived in Portland on time yesterday\u00a0after an uneventful trip and thankfully our bikes made the trip without sustaining any damage. As part of the preparation for this trip I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}