{"id":4885,"date":"2021-09-11T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T23:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2021-09-11T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T23:47:52","slug":"road-trip-yellowknife-nt-to-nainaimo-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=4885","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip: Yellowknife (NT) to Nainaimo (BC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First major road trip in what seems like ages. My last road, to Edmonton from Yellowknife was for medical travel, and the return route was entirely face down in a pillow.&nbsp; ;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>This trip, solo driving from Yellowknife (NT) to Nainaimo (BC) &#8211; 2593km with a 740km detour to Smithers (BC).<\/p>\n<p>For fun, similar driving distances:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amsterdam &#8211; Moscow: 2446km<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amsterdam &#8211; Istanbul: 2720km<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amsterdam &#8211; Athens: 2870km<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amsterdam &#8211; Helsinki: 2264km<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lots of long sections of nothing &#8211; rocks and trees and intermittent cell phone coverage, Even radio coverage is spotty. Thank you Audio Books !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?attachment_id=4882#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4882\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4882\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM-249x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM-850x1024.png 850w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM-768x926.png 768w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM-695x838.png 695w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM-124x150.png 124w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-10.54.01-PM.png 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First major road trip in what seems like ages. My last road, to Edmonton from Yellowknife was for medical travel, and the return route was entirely face down in a pillow.&nbsp; ;&lt; This trip, solo driving from Yellowknife (NT) to Nainaimo (BC) &#8211; 2593km with a 740km detour to Smithers (BC). For fun, similar driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1218,1361,1360],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-steveschwarz","tag-driving","tag-roadtrip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}