{"id":94,"date":"2014-09-15T03:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-09-15T03:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:16:16","slug":"america-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"America The Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I rode through Northern California today I was reminded of the words to America the Beautiful&#8230;&#8221;America, America God shed His Grace on Thee&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 In the last 5 Days I have traveled through 7 states and over 2500 miles, felt the scorching heat of the desert, saw the largest tree and the tallest tree on earth, and felt the cool ocean mist &#8211; \u00a0I stand in awe when I consider\u00a0the majesty of God&#8217;s creation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Dad and I traveled from Merced, California to Eureka, California; the temperature ranged from 101 degrees to 60 degrees.\u00a0 We rode a section of Hwy 101 called the Redwood Highway, a 100 mile section of curving highway lined with Redwood trees.\u00a0 It was an AWSOME motorcycle ride!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96\" src=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo31-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo31\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo31.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the Redwood trees are not as large as the Giant Sequoias, they are taller, and no less impressive.\u00a0 Northern California is beautiful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo30-e1410750007806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo30-e1410750007806-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo30\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo30-e1410750007806-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo30-e1410750007806.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo32-e1410750083907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo32-e1410750083907-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo32\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo32-e1410750083907-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/englandriders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo32-e1410750083907.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will take a 35 mile ride called the Avenue of Giants, I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this ride for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/humboldtredwoods.org\/files\/imagecache\/image_small\/Ave_of_the_Giants_-_vertical.jpg\" alt=\"Ave_of_the_Giants_-_vertical.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/humboldtredwoods.org\/files\/imagecache\/image_medium\/Old_growth_redwoods_vertical.jpg\" alt=\"Old_growth_redwoods_vertical.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After riding the Avenue of Giants, we will head east and stay in Reno, NV\u00a0tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>I &#8216;ll have more pics of the Redwood trees to post tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>What a blessed people we are, not only do we have freedom but we have a wonderful place to live it out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I rode through Northern California today I was reminded of the words to America the Beautiful&hellip;&rdquo;America, America God shed His Grace on Thee&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp; In the last 5 Days I have traveled through 7 states and over 2500 miles, felt the scorching heat of the desert, saw the largest tree and the tallest tree on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/englandriders.com\/?p=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America The Beautiful<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>America The Beautiful - DREAM. 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