{"id":4888,"date":"2019-06-15T07:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2019-06-15T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T14:28:11","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Mountain Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4889\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4889 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6246a600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6246a600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6246a600-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo from a ride through the northern Sierra Nevadas. That&#8217;s my old Triumph Tiger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hey, here&#8217;s an alert to a cool new moto blog from good buddies Val and J.\u00a0 It&#8217;s focused on an area that is arguably one of the best riding locales in the US, and that&#8217;s the northern Sierra Nevada mountains.\u00a0 The site is appropriately titled <a href=\"https:\/\/sierramountainpasses.com\/\">Sierra Mountain Passes<\/a> and it&#8217;s impressive.\u00a0 My advice is pay it a visit and add it to your favorites list (it&#8217;s now on mine).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sierramountainpasses.com\/\">Sierra Mountain Passes<\/a> grabbed my attention for a couple of reasons.\u00a0 One is that I did an article for <em>Motorcycle Classics<\/em> magazine on the area a few years ago (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycleclassics.com\/classic-motorcycle-touring\/sierra-nevada-mountain-passes-zmmz11sozraw\">Five Sierra Nevada Passes<\/a><\/em>), the other is that J and I will be hunting deer in Idaho later this year. That&#8217;s going to be fun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4893\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4893 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JCB-170319_9872-650-600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JCB-170319_9872-650-600-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JCB-170319_9872-650-600-1-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good buddy J on a recent Baja ride.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, here&#8217;s an alert to a cool new moto blog from good buddies Val and J.\u00a0 It&#8217;s focused on an area that is arguably one of the best riding locales in the US, and that&#8217;s the northern Sierra Nevada mountains.\u00a0 The site is appropriately titled Sierra Mountain Passes and it&#8217;s impressive.\u00a0 My advice is pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/random-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sierra Mountain Passes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,89],"tags":[746],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","tag-sierra-mountain-passes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}