{"id":6954,"date":"2014-03-25T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2014-03-25T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:51:34","slug":"on-the-road-again-soon-gulp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2014\/03\/on-the-road-again-soon-gulp\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road Again &#8211; soon\u2026\u2026.GULP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6956\" alt=\"The polar opposite to us low slung dark varied, short legged Aberdonians. \" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images.jpeg\" width=\"191\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t fly. No that is not a comment about my personal feathered wing situation. Fact is I am not permitted to fly on a plane due to an ongoing health condition \u2013 yeh I know \u2013 yawn yawn. Don\u2019t worry I wasn\u2019t going to splurge out all that stuff \u2013 I was just telling you all about it cos I am in the process of planning a road trip with my dear Mum.<\/p>\n<p>Road trip consists of<\/p>\n<p>Her \u2013 passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>Me\u00a0 &#8211; driving seat.<\/p>\n<p>Her \u2013 old crumpled map. See below.<\/p>\n<p>Me \u2013 GPS<\/p>\n<p>I would be lying if I said I didn&#8217;t laugh when I saw this map proving my suspicion that she is no Christopher Columbus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6955\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Image-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Image-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Image-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Image.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Her \u2013 finely tuned destinations decided and confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Me \u2013 fly by the seat of the pants. Oh I do fly! \u00a0By the seat of my pants I forgot about that.<\/p>\n<p>My Dad once navigated his wee sailing boat round the coast of the north of Scotland with an AA Road Map. It didn\u2019t end well.\u00a0 So I do understand why she is pushing for some definitive answers as to where we are going. She thinks I take after him. I do too.<\/p>\n<p>In May we are off to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>So I am reinvigorating this blog \u00a0to tell the tale of a road trip \u00a0with me and her.<\/p>\n<p>Or as she would say &#8220;You and I, \u00a0Alison! Not Me and her&#8221;. \u00a0Yes the travails and travels of this middle aged daughter and my octogenarian Mum \u00a0on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Kerouac style?<br \/>\nWell that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t fly. No that is not a comment about my personal feathered wing situation. Fact is I am not permitted to fly on a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[87,699,1359,601,1025,1356,1357,18,941,1358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}