{"id":56,"date":"2006-07-29T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2006-07-29T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T01:46:44","slug":"the-road-to-waseca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/07\/29\/the-road-to-waseca\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Waseca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drive took about 30 hours. Chicken&#8217;s bus is amazing and we had a good time and slept well. Props to the drivers (Chicken and Jim) as well as the rotating crew who drove the rented box truck behind us, carrying most of what had been piled onto the trailer (before the axle debacle).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/66\/201378396_e01085765d_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/66\/201378396_e01085765d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Singalong!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/71\/201377580_e408fd4eee.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nLate night tollbooths in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/61\/201377485_723df3d71d_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/61\/201377485_723df3d71d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Cute armada crew fast asleep in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at Juan&#8217;s family&#8217;s warehouse in Waseca (45 minutes South of Minneapolis) early Tuesday morning. It was huge. We pulled the bus inside.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/69\/199879226_6286778155_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/69\/199879226_6286778155.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next 2 days were spent assembling the rafts, building the second floor, and patronizing local establishments in search of bathrooms and running water (big thanks thanks to Judy and the staff at Jonnie&#8217;s Bean). The Miss Rockaway kitchen crew came through in a big way, setting up a fully functional kitchen and serving up slammin&#8217; meals to over 20 people!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/57\/199876757_42c2c6178d_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/57\/199876757_42c2c6178d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Blurry Brandy helping to set up the kitchen in Waseca.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/26\/201376979_92673b5b99_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/26\/201376979_92673b5b99.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Callie, Nick, and Alexis framing out the second floor of the raft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive took about 30 hours. Chicken&#8217;s bus is amazing and we had a good time and slept well. Props to the drivers (Chicken and Jim) as well as the rotating crew who drove the rented box truck behind us, carrying most of what had been piled onto the trailer (before the axle debacle). Singalong! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.missrockaway.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}