{"id":5991,"date":"2022-12-17T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:15:09","slug":"cold-weather-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5991","title":{"rendered":"Cold Weather Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/WeatherBefore-20Christmas.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left; padding: 15px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"538\" data-original-width=\"953\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/WeatherBefore-20Christmas-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">It looks like the weather here near Tampa is going to be below normal over the next two weeks. They say it will be the coldest Christmas in years.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">However it is still going to be a lot warmer then back in Cleveland. Originally my travel plans were to leave on the Thursday before Christmas. I\u2019m sure glad I left early, looking at the weather projection picture for next Thursday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">On Friday I took a 25 mile bike ride from my camp to Brooksville on the Good Neighbor Trail. I did it peddling for 2 hours with a 1\/2 hour lunch break at their train museum gazebo. I feel that my fitness is slowly coming back.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\">So after it warmed up a little I headed<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\">&nbsp;south on the Withlacoochee Bike Trail and did a little shopping. I looked for a put-in for the river near US50\/98 but didn&#8217;t see anyplace. I biked down to Trilby and returned, it was another 22 mile bike ride.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Withlacoochee-CrookedRiver.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"562\" data-original-width=\"1000\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Withlacoochee-CrookedRiver-300x169.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The river here is very pretty and you can paddle upstream or downstream from our campsite but since I plan to leave early on Sunday morning for Lithia Springs near Tampa and will not take my kayak down to go paddling here.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">I hope to get a good campsite at Lithia Springs County Park. They don&#8217;t take reservations but usually have available sites on a Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the weather here near Tampa is going to be below normal over the next two weeks. They say it will be the coldest Christmas in years.&nbsp; However it is still going to be a lot warmer then back in Cleveland. Originally my travel plans were to leave on the Thursday before Christmas. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cold Weather Before Christmas<\/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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2223trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}