{"id":19,"date":"2006-08-03T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-08-04T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T01:25:36","slug":"ashland-to-crater-lake-to-ashland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Ashland to Crater Lake to Ashland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in Ashland after a night at the Crater Lake Lodge with the Atom. I&#8217;ll be here until Saturday as Brammo makes some tweaks to the car to better accomodate my oversize frame. I&#8217;ll post some pictures on Friday\u00a0&#8211; I left my adapter with the rest of my trip supplies at Brammo.<\/p>\n<p>First impression &#8211; this car is <em>very<\/em> easy to drive. The transmission \/ clutch feel is incredible, particularly as this is a new car, which tends to be tempermental. The car feels like it is glued to the road &#8211; I was hearing tire squeal from the cars that were following me as they tried to keep up in the curves.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a few suggestions to the folks at Brammo for new options, which may or may not appear in time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be getting a helmet intercom fitted here in Ashland so I can follow my GPS directions (from the PC\u00a0I have with me). I got lost on the way to Crater Lake, but it was the most fun I&#8217;ve ever had getting lost.<\/p>\n<p>The car gets lots of attention wherever it goes. People are surprised to hear it is made right here in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, DMV was a breeze &#8211; with my out-of-state driver&#8217;s license, an insurance card, and the Certificate of Origin from Brammo, I was on my way with 2 temporary trip plates (21 days each) for $40 total in less than 20 minutes, a lot of which was taken up by talking about the car.<\/p>\n<p>The car, facing the Crater Lake Lodge:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S4969-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wizard Island in Crater Lake:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S4958-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ancient evergreen clinging to the crater rim:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S4964-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in Ashland after a night at the Crater Lake Lodge with the Atom. I&#8217;ll be here until Saturday as Brammo makes some tweaks to the car to better accomodate my oversize frame. I&#8217;ll post some pictures on Friday\u00a0&#8211; I left my adapter with the rest of my trip supplies at Brammo. First impression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}