{"id":14808,"date":"2019-02-09T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2019-02-09T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:28:07","slug":"visiting-fairbanks-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14808","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Fairbanks: The Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;ve been quieter than normal recently, it&#8217;s because we were getting ready for our big trip&#8211;heading north to visit Tania in Alaska! HUZZAH!<\/p>\n<p>My goals were simple: Spend time with Tania and see the aurora. Both goals were accomplished! Although all my pictures of the aurora were blurry and out of focus, I didn&#8217;t mind, since I actually got to see the aurora, and it was amazing. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve spent much time reading here, you know that we spend a lot of time driving WV roads. Which are pretty abysmal. So of course I was interested in the Fairbanks roads and how very different they were from WV roads. First, being covered in snow was normal. Second, the scenery was so different from what I&#8217;m used to, I kept starting at it in fascination.<\/p>\n<p>The angle of the light also made things look even more gorgeous than they already were.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the roads Tania drives regularly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/47038619981\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-02-01_Fairbanks_085\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7853\/47038619981_a278f46192_z.jpg?resize=513%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"513\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2019-02-01_Fairbanks_085\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/47038618611\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-02-01_Fairbanks_075\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7925\/47038618611_5bedfc4df3_z.jpg?resize=506%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"506\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2019-02-01_Fairbanks_075\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/32096979277\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-02-01_Fairbanks_076\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7895\/32096979277_235028513b_z.jpg?resize=491%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"491\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2019-02-01_Fairbanks_076\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even more exciting, I got to expand my skill set and drive Tania&#8217;s car for a bit!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?resize=400%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?resize=400%2C194&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?resize=150%2C73&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?resize=768%2C373&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?resize=1024%2C498&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-05_Fairbanks_291.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may seem a strange place to start with our trip, but in rural areas transportation is how communities survive (or not) so I can&#8217;t help but be fascinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;ve been quieter than normal recently, it&#8217;s because we were getting ready for our big trip&#8211;heading north to visit Tania in Alaska! HUZZAH! My goals were simple: Spend time with Tania and see the aurora. Both goals were accomplished! Although all my pictures of the aurora were blurry and out of focus, I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1059,22,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-photos","category-travel-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3QQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}