{"id":32,"date":"2006-08-15T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-08-15T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:20:20","slug":"baker-ca-to-parker-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Baker, CA to Parker, AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left Baker at sunset, when the temperature on the Bun Boy &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Thermometer&#8221; had dropped to a balmy 102 degrees:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S5240-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S5239-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had hoped to arrive in Blythe, but an unannounced road closure on 95 at Vidal Junction forced me east onto 62. I&#8217;m in Parker, AZ (north of Quartzsite) now. Due to the high temperatures, I will be moving only at night at least until I get to Scottsdale. From Scottsdale to Springer and on to Albuquerque, NM there seems to be a forecast of rain, so I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll do once I get to Scottsdale.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the heat, I lost my Internet connection until things had a chance to cool down this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I know a bunch of folks were wanting to meet up with me, either in Blythe or Scottsdale. I&#8217;ll do my best to get in touch with you to see where and when\u00a0we can meet up. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it was due to things outside my control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Baker at sunset, when the temperature on the Bun Boy &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Thermometer&#8221; had dropped to a balmy 102 degrees: I had hoped to arrive in Blythe, but an unannounced road closure on 95 at Vidal Junction forced me east onto 62. I&#8217;m in Parker, AZ (north of Quartzsite) now. Due to the [&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\/32"}],"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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}