{"id":35099,"date":"2026-09-12T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35099"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:15:23","slug":"getting-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35099","title":{"rendered":"Getting there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;after getting up at 4am today I really had to get after getting everything ready and packed for Italy&#8230;did two loads of laundry and have packed a lot of stuff&#8230;have enough t-shirts and boxers but I only have 5 polo shirts and I needed at least one more and needed another set of pedals and a new pair of riding gloves so I bought all of them&#8230;got a cotton polo shirt for only 8 bucks and the pedals were 3 bucks less than the last set and the gloves were only 5 bucks so some good deals that will be here tomorrow&#8230;and I can check in for the flight to Richmond the day before so I can breeze through the airport&#8230;still going to take more than 3 hours to get there but I have learned patience and with a book to read, it&#8217;s no big deal&#8230;still have lots of details to get ready but with 5 days to do it, no problem&#8230;I did see the turkeys on the 2nd ride today and they are just huge&#8230;and they pay no attention to me just like the deer and I think that&#8217;s cool&#8230;going to be warm in Virginia and Italy so I&#8217;m only bringing a couple of light fleeces and can layer under them if I need it&#8230;and I can hit the library for the books I need Tues or Wed since I get them for three weeks and I&#8217;ll be back here on the 4th to take them back&#8230;starting to get excited about going and seeing my daughter for the first time since the UK trip 3 years ago&#8230;and get to spend some time with her&#8230;going to be fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after getting up at 4am today I really had to get after getting everything ready and packed for Italy&#8230;did two loads of laundry and have packed a lot of stuff&#8230;have enough t-shirts and boxers but I only have 5 polo shirts and I needed at least one more and needed another set of pedals and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting there&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-35099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35100,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35099\/revisions\/35100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}