{"id":5807,"date":"2026-07-23T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:47:27","slug":"the-all-american-west-coast-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/the-all-american-west-coast-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The All-American West Coast Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">3000+ miles later. <br><br>As The Proclaimers didn&#8217;t once say.<br>I would drive five hundred miles<br>And then I would drive five hundred more<br>Then I would even drive five hundred miles again<br>And then I would again drive five hundred more<br>Then again tag on another five hundred miles<br>Then I would have to drive five hundred+ more<br>Just to be the man who drove three thousand+<br>Miles\u00a0to fall down at my door<br>Da-da da da (Da-da da da)<br>Da-da da da (Da-da da da)<br>Da-da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da<br><br>I&#8217;ll do the real math later,<br><br>Saw some things that made me happy. Saw some things that made me sad. I shot 13 rolls of film. I even got to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_WjKM2A6fM0?si=WlLt-hEy3aGANiF4\" title=\"\">shoot a video with my dad <\/a>for an E-Trike company&#8217;s website and youtube channel! He got paid a decent amount and Ioved how personable he came across in the video. I was able to coax an Oscar worthy performance out of him. Proud of him. Ha! <br><br>It&#8217;s good to be home though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3000+ miles later. As The Proclaimers didn&#8217;t once say.I would drive five hundred milesAnd then I would drive five hundred moreThen I would even drive five hundred miles againAnd then I would again drive five hundred moreThen again tag on another five hundred milesThen I would have to drive five hundred+ moreJust to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-1vF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}