{"id":113443,"date":"2015-12-17T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113443"},"modified":"2015-12-17T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:51:23","slug":"go-west-dropping-everything-for-a-12000-mile-motorcycle-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113443","title":{"rendered":"Go West: Dropping Everything for a 12,000-Mile Motorcycle Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The road trip of a lifetime doesn&#8217;t have to mean filling an\u00a0old Buick with everything you&#8217;ve ever\u00a0owned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got enough stuff on that thing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked away from the sandstone cliffs of southern Utah&#8217;s Zion National Park, glowing orange under the waning sun, and turned to find my view blocked by a black Escalade full of kids and,\u00a0presumably, their parents. We were parked at a gas station on the edge of the park, and my gaze shifted from the Escalade to my 1999 BMW F650\u2014a motorcycle I purchased with $2,500 I was able to squirrel away between student loan payments. Strapped to the back of the vinyl seat was my internally-framed, 65-liter backpack, worn from years of use and miles of travel\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/united-states-motorcycle-journey-travel-diary\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road trip of a lifetime doesn&#8217;t have to mean filling an\u00a0old Buick with everything you&#8217;ve ever\u00a0owned. &#8220;Got enough stuff on that thing?&#8221; I looked away from the sandstone cliffs of southern Utah&#8217;s Zion National Park, glowing orange under the waning sun, and turned to find my view blocked by a black Escalade full of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113443","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=113443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113444,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113443\/revisions\/113444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}