{"id":627,"date":"2011-08-17T00:51:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T00:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-08-17T00:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T00:54:03","slug":"on-the-road-great-rocky-mountain-walkabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/on-the-road-great-rocky-mountain-walkabout\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road &#8211; Great Rocky Mountain Walkabout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just returned from a ten-day trip through the Rockies, northern plains, and Black Hills. Some might call it leaf mold, others, refilling the well, others, story fodder, but it was indeed an awesome trip.<\/p>\n<p>2709 miles from start to finish. I do have stories to tell involving empty fuel tanks, wild life, breathtaking mountain scenery, thunderstorms, Indians, and fellow campers. If you ask, I shall regale you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?saddr=Omaha,+Douglas,+Nebraska&amp;daddr=Denver,+CO+to:Estes+Park,+CO+to:Grand+Lake,+CO+to:Walden,+CO+to:Rawlins,+WY+to:Riverton,+WY+to:Jackson,+WY+to:Idaho+Falls,+ID+to:Missoula,+MT+to:Billings,+MT+to:Broadus,+MT+to:Belle+Fourche,+SD+to:Wall,+SD+to:Wanblee,+SD+to:Winner,+SD+to:Naper,+NE+to:Norfolk,+NE+to:Omaha,+NE&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=43.30952,-104.998155&amp;sspn=11.988953,18.764648&amp;geocode=FQt2dQId3C9H-int_Ay1yI2ThzEEtjeuT01CRg%3BFRJfXgIdgQ---SnPFx8jqoBrhzHWNoon-PSOEQ%3BFXYbaAId_921-SkDGhm71mVphzEMrMqpt5iW2w%3BFS8zZgIdpUSx-Sl9yfpYg4FphzESI4eYscMjgw%3BFfuDbQIdiz2q-SmLdPBFu3FChzE3f7VUEBi04Q%3BFV6ufQId-aqb-SkJ3vRPlU5chzET_JW_aqQgPA%3BFT-CkAIdOECK-SnRq2G_uZJYhzEwyCXWVsCv0Q%3BFXlzlwIdROZl-SlLf8_8WBpTUzFcgzqxywEcPQ%3BFVU_lwIdp35S-Sm1EpVzTllUUzHJSUwJ_MkRIw%3BFVI2ywId8pY0-SnLZ_NQKsxdUzEugJTKdxLj6Q%3BFfaYugIdLmmI-SmXnfqIiG9IUzFQtXnx1FY1Nw%3BFSlrtQId_pu3-SlvpxCjJUAxUzEXcowr24G1XQ%3BFY2hqQIdjFfP-SmV3ByGwoMyUzGrmGYN-zcFHg%3BFalFnwId9Orn-SmXD16J8al9hzEFLWqlKsmjDQ%3BFSLRmAId-Mjw-SkDz9EdRpF-hzG0hZLzasdOaw%3BFRrglQIdwUUM-imJR8BkLX6BhzE7cUK-9npoTQ%3BFZqSjwIdRecX-iml5Ck_AXqEhzEsxkFsYLOwpw%3BFUhSgQIdWokx-inBGOfbyT-QhzE05vYPhslswA%3BFQt2dQId3C9H-int_Ay1yI2ThzEEtjeuT01CRg&amp;mra=ls&amp;vpsrc=0&amp;z=6\">Here&#8217;s a map of my route.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to get back to the creative business.\u00a0 More podcast episodes, finish up <em>Sword of the Ronin,<\/em> and a couple of other double-secret probation projects.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ftravisheermann.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F08%2F17%2Fon-the-road-great-rocky-mountain-walkabout%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just returned from a ten-day trip through the Rockies, northern plains, and Black Hills. Some might call it leaf mold, others, refilling the well, others, story fodder, but it was indeed an awesome trip. 2709 miles from start to finish. I do have stories to tell involving empty fuel tanks, wild life, breathtaking mountain scenery, thunderstorms, Indians, and fellow campers. If you ask, I shall regale you. Here&#8217;s a map of my route. Now it&#8217;s time to get back to the creative business.\u00a0 More podcast episodes, finish up Sword of the Ronin, and a couple of other double-secret<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/on-the-road-great-rocky-mountain-walkabout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Road &#8211; Great Rocky Mountain Walkabout<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-writing"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:35:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}