{"id":4376,"date":"2017-05-16T02:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:46:06","slug":"long-way-to-calais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/long-way-to-calais\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Way to Calais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I knew there was a bus from Boston to Portland, from Portland to Augusta, from Augusta to Bangor, and from Bangor to Calais, I would ride it. But Google did not tell me that. So my way was much longer than even that.<!--more-->\u00a0I left at noon, hitchhiked, rode a bike, and slept in a hotel in Portland. This hotel was close to the bus station, that how I figured out the Concord bus line. It seems Google knows only Greyhound. There is one daily bus from Bangor to Calais, at 3 pm. If I knew that, the road from Boston to Calais would take me one day instead of two.<\/p>\n<p>Click photo for more:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4378\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/100220277700667817384\/album\/6412981127946866817?authkey=CIbUod3_gbW6xgE\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4378\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/greenway-97.jpg\" alt=\"On my way to Calais\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/greenway-97.jpg 700w, https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/greenway-97-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/greenway-97-233x175.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On my way to Calais<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I knew there was a bus from Boston to Portland, from Portland to Augusta, from Augusta to Bangor, and from Bangor to Calais, I would ride it. But Google did not tell me that. So my way was much longer than even that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[432,219],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike-rides","tag-east-coast-greenway-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}