{"id":79,"date":"2015-12-22T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T20:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-12-22T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T21:00:25","slug":"15-8-28-00-railroad-friendly-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"15: 8-28-00 Railroad Friendly Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Railroad Friendly Bar<\/h2>\n<p>6:50pm<\/p>\n<p>One VB for the road.<\/p>\n<p>I am so damn tired &amp; stiff. That surfing thing kicked my ass! \u00a0Loads of fun, though. \u00a0I never really got upright. \u00a0I was doing really well at the start. \u00a0It was a cinch catching the waves. \u00a0but I think that wore me out. \u00a0When we finally tried standing, I was sitting too forward on the board. or I was \u201crailing\u201d. \u00a0(leaning the board on its rail to turn) , or I just couldn\u2019t get my ass through the surf to where the waves were breaking. \u00a0I did manage to fall in with some interesting company: \u00a0two Britons, Nicki &amp; Chad, and two Americans, Ashley &amp; Kate. \u00a0The latter is from Chillicothe, OH. \u00a0Ashley is from DC. \u00a0Both are studying in Sydney &amp; came up for the weekend. \u00a0All in all, a good time. \u00a0The guys running the class were real nice, the beach was beautiful (we were just south of the cape), but the weather sucked. \u00a0It was windy and overcast. \u00a0However, the wind was off the shore which \u00a0made the waves stand higher. \u00a0Not that it made much difference to us; we were surfing the white wash.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Billabong-Backpack.jpg\" alt=\"Billabong Backpack\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billabong Backpack<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Did some shopping today. \u00a0Saw a real nice 35 L (?) pack by Billabong for A$120. \u00a0\u00a0There was another that only had one strap crossing the chest. \u00a0It was smaller &amp; a bit less. \u00a0I wanted the larger, but I really couldn\u2019t justify it. \u00a0Would have made a really cool school pack, though.<\/p>\n<p>Checked out the Kebabs at the Kebab Hut. \u00a0They\u2019re actually wraps. \u00a0Good Wraps, I might add. \u00a0And that\u2019s about it for the day. \u00a0Now I\u2019m just waiting for the train to Murwillumbah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81\" src=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Place-Murwillumbah-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Murwillumbah\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Place-Murwillumbah-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Place-Murwillumbah.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murwillumbah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railroad Friendly Bar 6:50pm One VB for the road. I am so damn tired &amp; stiff. That surfing thing kicked my ass! \u00a0Loads of fun, though. \u00a0I never really got upright. \u00a0I was doing really well at the start. \u00a0It&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thewalkabout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}