{"id":2032,"date":"2010-05-24T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/05\/a-final-ride\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:38:00","slug":"a-final-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/05\/a-final-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A final ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our final ride today was a short one with a mere 400 m ascent. The route took us from Arco up into the baking hills to the west. The descent was technical with lots of loose rock followed later by a steep descent on cobble stones. We ended up at a spot along a river where we had stopped briefly two days earlier. I paddled in the river for a bit before we rode back to the campsite, stuck the bikes in the car, and headed back to the land of cabbage. Mmmm cabbage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crispaddling2lagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cris paddling 2 (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crispaddling2lagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/whiteswanlagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"White swan (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/whiteswanlagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/whiteswanlagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Paddling in the river after the descent. Yes, I know I am wearing posy Nike gear. It&#8217;s all I have&#8230; honestly&#8230; Above right: A swan on the lake in the evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bythelakeintheeveninglagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"By the lake in the evening (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bythelakeintheeveninglagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fraukebythelakeintheeveninglagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frauke by the lake in the evening (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fraukebythelakeintheeveninglagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Looking across the Gardasee in the evening. Above right: Frauke at the water&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our final ride today was a short one with a mere 400 m ascent. The route took us from Arco up into the baking hills to the west. The descent was technical with lots of loose rock followed later by a steep descent on cobble stones. We ended up at a spot along a river [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-lago-di-garda","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}