{"id":337,"date":"2016-09-16T16:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T04:01:17","slug":"day-25-september-15-alamosa-to-antonito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/2016\/09\/16\/day-25-september-15-alamosa-to-antonito\/","title":{"rendered":"(Day 26 &#8211; September 15) Alamosa to Antonito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>odometer: 1621 &#8211; 1649 ( 28 miles, 45\u00a0kilometers)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> elevation: 2360 meters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":9,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.7hannahs.net\\\/wordpress\\\/banff2mexico\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/16\\\/day-25-september-15-alamosa-to-antonito\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-width=\"863\"><div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 858px; height: 239px;\"><div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 429px; 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height: 480px;\"><div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 858px; height: 484px;\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/2016\/09\/16\/day-25-september-15-alamosa-to-antonito\/img_20160915_115441\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"340\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160915_115441-e1474415730742.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.25&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;BlackBerry Q10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1473940481&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.04&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_20160915_115441\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160915_115441-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160915_115441-1024x576.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160915_115441-e1474415730742-854x480.jpg\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" align=\"left\" title=\"img_20160915_115441\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Today was a short day. I stayed on highway 285 and toiled against a brisk 25 km\/hr head wind until I reached Antonito around 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>There are no real stops between Espanola and Antonito. Given the day&#8217;s wind condition I knew I could not make Espanola. I took the extra time to reflect and weigh reasons to continue on to Antelope Wells, NM versus returning home from Albuquerque, NM.<\/p>\n<p>These were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">There is no good transportation from Antelope Wells. The options are convoluted and costly involving finding shuttles back to a city large enough to have an airport.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I had diminishing interest in the terrain. Although the GDMBR would be more interesting it was isolated, dry, and more difficult. \u00a0The highways were increasingly monotonous without any real interesting destination.<\/li>\n<li>There were events at home that draw me back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I stayed at a hotel with an interesting southwestern\/Mexican flavor. I had my lunch and supper just across the street at a popular restaurant serving Mexican food. \u00a0 I was amazed that one waitress could handle the till, bus, and serve customers at 10 tables or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>odometer: 1621 &#8211; 1649 ( 28 miles, 45\u00a0kilometers) elevation: 2360 meters Today was a short day. I stayed on highway 285 and toiled against a brisk 25 km\/hr head wind until I reached Antonito around 1pm. There are no real stops between Espanola and Antonito. Given the day&#8217;s wind condition I knew I could not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/2016\/09\/16\/day-25-september-15-alamosa-to-antonito\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Day 26 &#8211; September 15) Alamosa to Antonito<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/banff2mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}