{"id":4585,"date":"2015-07-01T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:15:51","slug":"brad-across-america-almost-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/brad-across-america-almost-home\/","title":{"rendered":"bRad Across America &#8211; Almost Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When last we visited our young hero, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/brad-across-america-through-the-mid-west\/\">barreling through the Mid-West,<\/a> spinning ever closer to the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transambikerace.com\/\">Trans Am Bike Race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky offered up climb after climb after climb. And dogs. Lots of chasing dogs. But that&#8217;s America, right? On into Virginia he rode, until today, in sight of Yorktown, and the finish. Stay tuned for the dramatic conclusion, and in the meantime, enjoy some photos from the\u00a0road.<a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19005435270_69660e7bb2_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4586\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19005435270_69660e7bb2_h.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead shot of Brad\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19005435270_69660e7bb2_h.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19005435270_69660e7bb2_h-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19005435270_69660e7bb2_h-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19077456410_2262dad92c_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4587\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19077456410_2262dad92c_h.jpg\" alt=\"Old Car\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19077456410_2262dad92c_h.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19077456410_2262dad92c_h-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19077456410_2262dad92c_h-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19106011230_ef6824843b_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4589\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19106011230_ef6824843b_h.jpg\" alt=\"A crossroads in Virginia\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19106011230_ef6824843b_h.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19106011230_ef6824843b_h-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19106011230_ef6824843b_h-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19078916629_de2961192f_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4588\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19078916629_de2961192f_h.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to Virginia Sign\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19078916629_de2961192f_h.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19078916629_de2961192f_h-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19078916629_de2961192f_h-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19268920481_2085e4097c_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4590\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19268920481_2085e4097c_h.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Races Across America\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19268920481_2085e4097c_h.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19268920481_2085e4097c_h-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19268920481_2085e4097c_h-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we visited our young hero, he was barreling through the Mid-West, spinning ever closer to the end of the Trans Am Bike Race. Kentucky offered up climb after climb after climb. And dogs. Lots of chasing dogs. But that&#8217;s America, right? On into Virginia he rode, until today, in sight of Yorktown, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/brad-across-america-almost-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;bRad Across America &#8211; Almost Home&#8221;<\/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":[],"tags":[375,364,365,23,43,374,629],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brad","tag-evergreening","tag-on-the-road","tag-seven-racers","tag-team-seven-cycles","tag-the-drifters","tag-trans-am-bike-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}