{"id":108077,"date":"2015-07-12T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=108077"},"modified":"2015-07-12T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T17:04:09","slug":"mt-bike-tales-of-trails-on-a-semester-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=108077","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike &#8211; Tales of Trails on a Semester Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a student splitting my time between Marin County and Santa Barbara, California, I like to think that I&#8217;m pretty lucky for the &#8220;<i>normal<\/i>&#8221; day-to-day life I lead. California is an incredible place, yet I also love to travel and explore beyond the borders, culture, and trails that are familiar to me. This past spring semester, my girlfriend and I had the incredible opportunity to study abroad in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, and while I had high hopes for my experience abroad, the semester exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, we packed our lives up into a pile of bike boxes, suitcases, and tattered duffels, sacrificing valuable winter clothing in favor of helmets and bike shoes in order to fit under airline weight limits. Bleary-eyed from the long day of travel, we had no idea what to expect as we arrived at the Marseille-Provence airport\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/news\/tales-of-trails-on-a-semester-abroad-2015.html?trk=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a student splitting my time between Marin County and Santa Barbara, California, I like to think that I&#8217;m pretty lucky for the &#8220;normal&#8221; day-to-day life I lead. California is an incredible place, yet I also love to travel and explore beyond the borders, culture, and trails that are familiar to me. This past spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108078,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108077\/revisions\/108078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}