{"id":2778,"date":"2009-09-08T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:07:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:07:44","slug":"katherine-to-darwin-day-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=2778","title":{"rendered":"Katherine to Darwin Day 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took ages to pack up this morning. It was the first time that I had to get EVERYTHING on the &#8216;Bird, even my little suppository stool \ud83d\ude42 and of course it was hot.<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably, I ran into the Kiwis at Pine Creek (who decided that we were miscreants) who were on their way back to Darwin to return their hire 4WD. They sought me out to get the address of\u00a0 NIGE \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Steady ride up to Darwin, even took a scenic route where I rediscovered that some roads even have bends in them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sign1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2779\" title=\"sign1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sign1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"sign1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sign1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sign1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sign1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Came across a burnt out semi so got the &#8216;Bird to pose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burnt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2780\" title=\"burnt1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burnt1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"burnt1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burnt1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burnt1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burnt1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was even a sign warning me about the dangers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burntbird1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2781\" title=\"burntbird1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burntbird1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"burntbird1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burntbird1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burntbird1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/burntbird1.jpg 1142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early impression of Darwin is &#8216;Where is it?&#8217; and why does everyone speak with an Irish accent?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/room1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2784\" title=\"room1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/room1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"room1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/room1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/room1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/room1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The digs for the next couple of days, better than the tent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took ages to pack up this morning. It was the first time that I had to get EVERYTHING on the &#8216;Bird, even my little suppository stool \ud83d\ude42 and of course it was hot. Unbelievably, I ran into the Kiwis at Pine Creek (who decided that we were miscreants) who were on their way back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}