{"id":591,"date":"2009-02-28T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T03:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-02-28T23:12:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T03:12:37","slug":"the-great-tumbleweed-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"The Great Tumbleweed Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-592\" title=\"aerosnoozing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aerosnoozing.jpg\" alt=\"aerosnoozing\" width=\"298\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aerosnoozing.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aerosnoozing-250x209.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>I worried needlessly. By the time we got on the road at 10 AM, the sun had dried out I-80 completely, and we did the 410 miles to Des Moines without incident, though the temps did not get above 20F. We&#8217;re now kicking back and taking it easy; less than 350 miles remain, and at this point I could do that standing on my head.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was the Great Tumbleweed Migration on I-76 in the northeast corner of Colorado. We had a strong wind out of the north, and for a 20-mile stretch past Julesburg, the weeds were rolling across the Interstate by the hundreds like some weird animals, in many sizes and shapes. Carol tried to get a video, but it&#8217;s not as impressive as I&#8217;d hoped, and certainly not good enough to post. When we hit a rest stop in Nebraska I found pieces of tumbleweed stuck in my bumpers and there&#8217;s probably plenty more elsewhere under the chassis.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, we left Colorado just in time for the temps there to start creeping up into the 70s. Not bad for February, and apparently our best-kept secret. (This is nothing new.)\u00a0 Golf at Christmas. Ski at Easter. And vice versa.\u00a0 I rarely appreciate it until I leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worried needlessly. By the time we got on the road at 10 AM, the sun had dried out I-80 completely, and we did the 410 miles to Des Moines without incident, though the temps did not get above 20F. We&#8217;re now kicking back and taking it easy; less than 350 miles remain, and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}