{"id":931,"date":"2010-04-26T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:05:58","slug":"drive-to-doxology-1-jared-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Drive to DOXOLOGY \u20131, Jared \u2013 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday began my trek to Allenspark, CO for the first of three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doxology.us\" target=\"_blank\">DOXOLOGY<\/a> events.&#160; I followed the directions that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\" target=\"_blank\">MapQues<\/a>t gave me.&#160; Unfortunately, that will be the last time I follow MapQuest as it led me about 90 minutes out of my way because it failed to tell me one all-important turn to make.<\/p>\n<p>Driving around and around and around, I finally stopped in a sporting goods store to purchase a GPS because I was beyond lost and quite frankly, I\u2019m not even sure I could have found my way back to where I just got off from.&#160; They had one unit and was way more than what I wanted to spend.&#160; (As a side note, I stopped in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a> real quick Sunday morning and thought about buying a GPS \u201cjust in case\u201d, but decided against it, thinking I would be ok.&#160; Bad idea.)<\/p>\n<p>I found a Walmart and ran in and purchased me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomtom.com\/products\/product.php?ID=1107&amp;Category=0&amp;Lid=4\" target=\"_blank\">TomTom XL 325\u2022SE<\/a>.&#160; It\u2019s not the top of the line, but it got the job done.&#160; With \u201cSamantha\u2019s\u201d help (the name of the female voice), I made it to my destination at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintmalo.org\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Malo Catholic Retreat, Conference &amp; Spiritual Center<\/a>.&#160; I started my trip at 9:30 am and arrived at 6:03 pm.&#160; What should have taken me 6 hours, 3 minutes according to MapQuest, took me 8 hours, 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I made it just in time for dinner, rather frazzled to say the least.&#160; I got my stuff, ate, threw my computer in my room and went out to the car to get the rest of my stuff.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The weather here is kinda nice.&#160; I ran out to the car this morning to get something out of it and found the car covered in snow.&#160; Yes, <strong>COVERED<\/strong> in snow.&#160; If I\u2019m outside later, I\u2019ll try to snap a picture of the car.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for now.&#160; I\u2019ll be posting a review of DOXOLOGY once I return to Gillette (or I may make some smaller post each night, don\u2019t know).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday began my trek to Allenspark, CO for the first of three DOXOLOGY events.&#160; I followed the directions that MapQuest gave me.&#160; Unfortunately, that will be the last time I follow MapQuest as it led me about 90 minutes out of my way because it failed to tell me one all-important turn to make. Driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78453,145868,6443241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doxology","category-lutheran","category-office-of-holy-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}