{"id":150,"date":"2012-08-05T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:23:08","slug":"august-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/05\/august-5\/","title":{"rendered":"August 5: Mostly Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Arjan-Mississippi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Arjan-Mississippi.png\" alt=\"Arjan Taking a Picture of a Mississippi Tributary\" title=\"Arjan Captures the Mississippi\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Arjan-Mississippi.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Arjan-Mississippi-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arjan Capturing the Mississippi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 1890 &#8211; Devils Lake, North Dakota.<\/strong>\u00a0 Under 400 miles today to slow down for perfect weather and Minnesota.\u00a0 We\u00a0swam in Andrusia Lake, near Bemidji, and followed that with a leisurely lunch on a terrace on Lake Bemidji.\u00a0 We crossed the Mississippi four times (we were near the headwaters where it is a small meandering stream).<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, in North Dakota,\u00a0we broke down and ate prime rib and filet mignon.\u00a0 It was very good.\u00a0 When in Rome&#8230;. Last night we tried to eat what we&#8217;re used to, and\u00a0it was not good.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be a longer day.\u00a0 We\u00a0booked in\u00a0Havre, North Central\u00a0Montana.\u00a0\u00a0Finding a place to sleep on August weekends can be difficult.\u00a0 By the time we get somewhere, there is typically no vacancy.\u00a0 We stay ahead of the game by\u00a0booking a day in advance over the Internet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bemidji-Lunch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bemidji-Lunch.png\" alt=\"Terrace on Lake Bemidji\" title=\"Bemidji Lunch\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bemidji-Lunch.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bemidji-Lunch-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lunch on Lake Bemidji<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[Photographs &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 1890 &#8211; Devils Lake, North Dakota.\u00a0 Under 400 miles today to slow down for perfect weather and Minnesota.\u00a0 We\u00a0swam in Andrusia Lake, near Bemidji, and followed that with a leisurely lunch on a terrace on Lake Bemidji.\u00a0 We crossed the Mississippi four times (we were near the headwaters where it is a small meandering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/05\/august-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 5: Mostly Minnesota&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}