{"id":236,"date":"2016-08-11T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-08-07T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T00:15:55","slug":"wenatchee-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/11\/wenatchee-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wenatchee, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They water the air here. <a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1520.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-321 size-large\" title=\"Watering the Air\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1520-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Air Irrigation\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1520-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1520-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1520-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0go out of their way to ensure no one drowns in the Columbia River.<a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1516.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-319 size-large\" title=\"Don't drown.\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1516-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Don't drown.\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1516-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1516-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1516-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Wenatchee is similar to Davis: small, hot, nice bike paths (except of course here they irrigate the grass alongside said\u00a0paths), and snobby bike stores. Granted, this one was worse than any I&#8217;d been to in Davis; at least there they assumed you wanted to fix your malfunctioning bike. Here, they told me nothing was wrong except the bike chain had gotten stretched out, and told me I was wrong when I explained that when shifting the day before, the chain kept dragging on the front derailleur, since &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t that far off&#8221;. They acted surprised when I asked them to replace the chain, since, after all, &#8220;it should still work as is&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Wenatchee is less flat than Davis though, so nicer views.<a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1517.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-320 size-large\" title=\"Columbia River\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1517-900x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Columbia River\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1517-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1517-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1517-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1517-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But beware getting caught on the wrong side of the train tracks. You may have to go out of your way, onto busy streets, on a broken bike that someone will later tell you is not broken.<a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/train.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-322\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/train-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"train\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/train-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/train-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/train-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They water the air here. And\u00a0go out of their way to ensure no one drowns in the Columbia River. Otherwise, Wenatchee is similar to Davis: small, hot, nice bike paths (except of course here they irrigate the grass alongside said\u00a0paths), and snobby bike stores. Granted, this one was worse than any I&#8217;d been to in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/11\/wenatchee-wa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wenatchee, WA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}