{"id":194,"date":"2011-05-25T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:25:43","slug":"reflexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/words\/reflexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"re(flex)ibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I’m learning in this trip is that flexibility in plans is key to happiness. To wit: I intended to make it to Lancaster PA or thereabouts tonight, which would have left me with about 150 miles into New York City, my destination for tomorrow. However, two things happened to thwart this plan.<\/p>\n

First, I woke up in the happy home of my old friends Rick & Renee<\/a>, and it was just darn hard to leave. I ended up leaving Radford VA about 1.5 hours after I intended.<\/p>\n

Second, and more dramatically (this is where the reflex part comes in) I nearly got splattered against the side of a 14′ truck. I was cruising north on Hwy 29 towards Charlottesville on a divided highway, two lanes each direction. At an intersection, I noticed a car that looked like they were about to enter from the right, so I started to move into the left lane. As I did so, I noticed this big truck entering from the opposite side. I figured they were pulling into the median turn area, which prompted me to correct and stay in the right lane.<\/p>\n

No. The driver of the truck barreled across all four lanes, cutting directly in front of me, running at about 65mph. Through the glorious combination of quick reflexes and the ABS on my motorcycle, I avoided clipping the rear bumper of the truck by no more than 3′ – maybe closer to 1′.\u00a0After I finished cursing the bastard I realized I needed to cool my jets and let the adrenaline seep out of me, so I ended up with an unexpected long pitstop at a Starbucks in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

These two factors contributed to me being several hours behind expected schedule. I rolled into Frederick as dark was falling – about when I expected to hit Lancaster. Ah, well.\u00a0Tomorrow, I’ll get up early and get a move on to make up the time. And hey, if I don’t make it into NYC until Friday, so be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I’m learning in this trip is that flexibility in plans is key to happiness. To wit: I intended to make it to Lancaster PA or thereabouts tonight, which would have left me with about 150 miles into New York City, my destination for tomorrow. However, two things happened to thwart this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}