{"id":59,"date":"2023-11-22T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/?p=59"},"modified":"2023-11-25T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:17:33","slug":"tues-22nd-nov-xpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Wed 22nd Nov \u2013 XPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7am \u2013 4pm. The Long Way Up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The XPT from Sydney to Coffs will be my chariot into the afterlife. It is an endless, baffling trip from Sydney to the Mid North Coast. In your head, you think that it is going to take you via the coast. Wrong. From Newcastle, you then end up in Maitland, and from there, you visit every small town until you hit Nambucca and find yourself again somewhat near the coast. You try and follow a map while you travel, but that is a pointless exercise because for 75% of the trip there is no internet connection. At one point towards the end I saw some banana trees and was thankful for the trees to tell me I was on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Due to near zero internet connection, you better enjoy the album you were listening to on Spotify when you had reception. It will be the only choice you get for hours. For me thankfully this was Death Cab For Cutie\u2019s Narrow Stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Old people: The XPT is a must do and you are old, with a persistent cough and\/or like clearing your throat loudly and constantly. Five stars for body noises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231121_233016343-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231121_233016343-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231121_233016343-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231121_233016343-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231121_233016343-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231121_233016343-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_023328763-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_023328763-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_023328763-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_023328763-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_023328763-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_023328763-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_055000507-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_055000507-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_055000507-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_055000507-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_055000507-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231122_055000507-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Perhaps the &#8220;bucket of chips&#8221; was ambitious for three people. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randwick -> Coffs Harbour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-summer-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}