{"id":126,"date":"2014-04-22T05:16:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-02-20T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T15:29:19","slug":"day-11-van-horn-tx-344-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 &#8211; Van Horn, TX  (344 miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_129\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Silver-City-KOA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Silver-City-KOA.jpg\" alt=\"Home Sweet Home at the Silver City, NM  KOA April 21, 2014\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Silver-City-KOA.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Silver-City-KOA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Silver-City-KOA-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home Sweet Home at the Silver City, NM KOA April 21, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cold last night here in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_City,_New_Mexico\">Silver City, New Mexico<\/a>, and still pretty dang cold this morning. I didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed until someone started a fire &#8211; but wait, this isn&#8217;t Red&#8217;s Meadows &#8211; and&#8230; besides, I was usually the one that started the morning fire anyway.\u00a0 But I digress &#8211; I decided that a hot shower would be just the thing, so I got up and took one.\u00a0 I spent A-While in there hoping that the sun would start shining on our situation and warming things up. That&#8217;s exactly what happened. I took my sweet time getting things wrapped back up for the road and headed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertusa.com\/mag04\/aug\/nm_hy.html\">Hwy 152<\/a> (check out that link &#8211; I went the other direction but it&#8217;s a very good walk through).\u00a0 A few miles after I got on 152 I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chino_Mine\">Chino Open Pit Mine.<\/a> There were other mines along the way but I stopped here because they had a viewing area.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Mine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Mine.jpg\" alt=\"Chino open pit copper mine - once the largest in the world. In business since 1909\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Mine.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Mine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Mine-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chino open pit copper mine &#8211; once the largest in the world. In business since 1909<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On up the road to Emory Pass at the very top of Hwy 152. This mountain road was very slow going but still a nice way to start the day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_131\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Emory-Pass-NM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Emory-Pass-NM.jpg\" alt=\"Emory Pass on New Mexico's Hwy 152.  Elevation 8,828 - April 22, 2014\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Emory-Pass-NM.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Emory-Pass-NM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Emory-Pass-NM-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emory Pass on New Mexico&#8217;s Hwy 152. Elevation 8,828 &#8211; April 22, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After spending so much time going so slowly and making so many turns, I didn&#8217;t feel too bad about doing some straight up time on the slab to get where I was going. Interstate 25 is hardly an Interstate but I-10 certainly is. This part of the ride was actually kinda difficult because of the wind. I&#8217;d say constant 15 gusting to 25 and mostly a head wind but it swirled around enough to make you pay very close attention. With that much wind my speed on the 80 mph Interstate was just 65; That almost makes you a road hazard!! And out here in Texas (most states actually) there isn&#8217;t a separate truck speed limit. Tractor Trailers blowing by you at 85 on a windy day &#8211; well, let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m not looking forward to doing that again any time soon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all good now though and I plan to be off the Interstate for the next few days.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Map.jpg\" alt=\"11 Map\" width=\"938\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Map.jpg 938w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Map-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/11-Map-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold last night here in Silver City, New Mexico, and still pretty dang cold this morning. I didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed until someone started a fire &#8211; but wait, this isn&#8217;t Red&#8217;s Meadows &#8211; and&#8230; besides, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/?p=126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}