{"id":550,"date":"2008-12-17T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2008-12-19T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T05:37:49","slug":"quick-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Quick road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bit of a booze-up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/house\/Amperbo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amperbo<\/a> on Friday, my brother had a few people over because <a href=\"http:\/\/boobsinjuriesanddrpepper.blogspot.com\/search?updated-max=2006-03-20T14%3A32%3A00-06%3A00&amp;max-results=2\" target=\"_blank\">the moon was full<\/a> or something (actually it was his birthday but at our age we&#8217;re quiet about that).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlo.net\/resources\/lyrics\/alices.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">So we looked and felt our best<\/a> when we had to go to Knysna the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>6 hours and 6 minutes of driving, 519km, at an average of 85km\/h and 6.3l\/100km according to the trip computer, which lies by about 1l\/100km about these things. I normally get better fuel consumption but I was towing a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">parachute<\/span> trailer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300917r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-551\" title=\"s6300917r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300917r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300917r-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300917r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bottom half of the display cabinet we took to Knysna is on the trailer, the top half is inside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300918r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-552\" title=\"s6300918r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300918r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300918r-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/s6300918r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw a nice looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/lr\/jabba\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forward Control<\/a> in George.<\/p>\n<p>In Knysna we swapped the display cabinet for a dining room table, and then we drove all the way back again on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>But at least we now have a dining room table :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bit of a booze-up at Amperbo on Friday, my brother had a few people over because the moon was full or something (actually it was his birthday but at our age we&#8217;re quiet about that). So we looked and felt our best when we had to go to Knysna the next morning. 6 hours and 6 minutes of driving, 519km, at an average of 85km\/h and 6.3l\/100km according to the trip computer, which lies by about 1l\/100km about these things. I normally get better fuel consumption but I was towing a parachute trailer. The bottom half of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}