{"id":165,"date":"2009-05-22T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-05-22T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T20:18:25","slug":"by-yon-bonnie-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"By yon bonnie banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewbirkett\/3554304695\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3582\/3554304695_66a12a7003_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewbirkett\/3554304695\/\">By yon bonnie banks<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/andrewbirkett\/\">Andrew Birkett<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>A sunny day at last, and lots of miles too.  After crossing the Erskine Bridge, I followed the cycle path. It was nice, but as it wound carefully through quiet residential streets, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel it was a fairly slow way to get along.  Great for a weekend stroll, mildly frustrating during a LEJOG ride.  Still, as advertised, it did get me up to Balloch.<br \/>\nI then struggled to find the start of the next cyclepath to avoid via A82.  Couldn&#8217;t find it.  Ended up doing the first few miles on the road, turning off at some holiday place, duck world or something like that.  Passing a hotel and a wedding, i found myself at the lochside, but no path to cycle on.  As i retraced my steps, checking all other possible routes, I realised that the cycle path was literally just the pavement by the side of the A82! I wasn&#8217;t very impressed!  Still, better than being actually on the road.  The path improved a bit later on, using parts of the old lochside A82 tarmac.  Still, it took a long time to do the 15 miles up to Tarbet.<br \/>\nWierdest moment of the day came after heading west for 2 miles to the hotel in Arrochar.  I came to the junction and met . . . the sea! Well, a sea loch anyway.  An unmistakable smell of salt water, after a day spent next to a fresh water loch.  Really striking.<br \/>\nTomorrow is, in the Rumsfeld ontology, a known unknown.  Rannoch Moor, Glencoe and Fort William.  Never done it on a bike before though!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By yon bonnie banks Originally uploaded by Andrew Birkett A sunny day at last, and lots of miles too. After crossing the Erskine Bridge, I followed the cycle path. It was nice, but as it wound carefully through quiet residential streets, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel it was a fairly slow way to get along. [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}