{"id":11532,"date":"2024-03-10T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2024-03-10T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T09:40:22","slug":"a-long-drive-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-long-drive-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Drive in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Yesterday I went for a long drive in the rain. I drove from an hour from Valencia back to Switzerland with rain along most of the journey, and rain. The rain was sometimes falling so heavily that I had to slow down to see. At other moments the rain was light but trucks and cars were throwing up torrents of water so I had to slow down and wait until a drier bit of road before overtaking. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to this drive, and I&#8217;m used to the roads and the route. I&#8217;m so used to it that I don&#8217;t really notice the turn offs anymore. I drive automatically. This doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t pay attention to the road. I do. I&#8217;m so focused driving that this morning when I woke up I was in a daze. I think that between twelve and a half hours of non-stop focus and rain I tired myself out. By the time I got home I was tired. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I have felt so tired that I had to stop by the side of the road long enough to recover. I think that&#8217;s from my 3600km in four day road trip. Geneva to Tarbes, Tarbes to Barcelona, Barcelona to Tarbes, Tarbes to Geneva. 800km per day. This time it was just 1300. <\/p>\n<p>The drive is easy, because I&#8217;m used to it, and because I drive at a speed that feels comfortable for the conditions. I was often as fast as the trucks, when the conditions were bad. I usually drive at 120km\/h in France, despite the 130km\/h limit, to avoid fatigue. <\/p>\n<p>During the drive I read Nowhere for Very Long, in full. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Yesterday I went for a long drive in the rain. I drove from an hour from Valencia back to Switzerland with rain along most of the journey, and rain. The rain was sometimes falling so heavily that I had to slow down to see. At other moments the rain was light but trucks and cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11533,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions\/11533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}