{"id":7886,"date":"2014-09-22T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2014-09-21T19:11:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T23:11:45","slug":"last-ride-of-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7886","title":{"rendered":"Last Ride of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, here in North America, summer continues until 2229 EDT on 22 September, the date and minute of the autumnal equinox.<\/p>\n

And yesterday I led the last ride of summer 2014 with my Harley club. We had a fantastic day. It was sunny and warm, with beautiful roads to ride on in my home state of Maryland.<\/p>\n

We rode…
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\n… on the backways and byways through farmland in central Maryland. We went to a diner for lunch (and had all-day breakfast!) Then we rode to a creamery for home-made ice cream. <\/p>\n

It was a perfect day. Just what this biker needed for a break from the intensity of caregiving all year (the spouse is doing better, thanks) and exceptionally intense workload at the office.<\/p>\n

I wore my Wesco motor patrol boots<\/a> with jeans tucked into them. Man, I had forgotten how comfortable these boots were. These are by far the most comfortable of all of my Wesco boots. Photos below show me without much gear. I did wear my mesh jacket while actually riding, but not while seated in the baking sunshine.\"Merideblog1\"\"Merideblog2\"\"Merideblog3\"\"Merideblog4\"And what would a good motorcycle ride be without stopping for ice cream?\"Merideblog5\"As they say, “Live to ride, ride to eat!” with smiles all the way. I thank my fellow riders for their courage to follow me. I didn’t even get lost, thanks to the pre-ride I did on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Life is short: ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, here in North America, summer continues until 2229 EDT on 22 September, the date and minute of the autumnal equinox. And yesterday I led the last ride of summer 2014 with my Harley club. We had a fantastic day. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-ride","category-wesco-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}