{"id":4517,"date":"2017-06-06T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:46:06","slug":"camping-in-l-l-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/camping-in-l-l-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping in L.L.Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gail told me that it would be a huge outdoor store on my way in Freeport, L.L.Bean, which was a few miles away before Portland and worked all day and nights. It was cool itself, also the next day I supposed to meet with Portland&#8217;s newspapers, so I was thinking about hanging somehow at this night shop, the whole night around. I&#8217;m an outdoor shopaholic. &nbsp;<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&nbsp;was roadwork, and, not to get stone-struck, I hitched. After dropping me off, the man wished me to be save and gave me his military knife, he was a veteran. I was going to refuse to take it because, first of all, it was heavy. Second &#8211; I don&#8217;t want even to touch&nbsp;it. Third &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to know how to use it. But then I just took it. Many times I refuse to take many things, then thought, I shouldn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>The later afternoon I was in L.L.Been. And saw a lot of erected tents staying empty on exposure. Do you know what I mean?<\/li>\n<li>I knew I would, but was hesitating till late, to ask could I actually sleep in one of their tents, because I&#8217;m bla-bla-bla.&nbsp;After a short discussion, a few managers came&nbsp;to a conclusion &#8220;exactly, why not?!&#8221; And offered me to choose a tent and make myself home.<\/li>\n<li>In the morning they call me for a special coffee with sneak, that&nbsp;they provided this&nbsp;week for those who cycled to work. And they made a&nbsp;license plate for my bike.<\/li>\n<li>They also gave me instructions in drawings about alligators on the particular road in Florida. Not sure what is better: alligators or pythons, who eat alligators and everything around. Anyway, their advice was&nbsp;rather to find&nbsp;a ride through this place.<\/li>\n<li>Then I took off to Portland\u2039<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div id=\"c82\" class=\"UE4aic\">\n<div class=\"tOS5\" data-rt=\"1\">\n<div class=\"zsm1j ByNCub\">\u203a<\/div>\n<div class=\"U4Go8e\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<h3 class=\"bzEyt\"><span class=\"H8Nqzf\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/100220277700667817384\/album\/6421593392643850017?authkey=CIiUx_CQzNP5aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Photos &#8211; View album<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"KwDIr\">\n<div class=\"b0H8Oc\">\n<div class=\"KRktze\" data-itemid=\"update\/z13jfjdjnzbaw3mvp23udzhbvybpyneyi04\" data-count=\"0\" data-pressed=\"false\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail told me that it would be a huge outdoor store on my way in Freeport, L.L.Bean, which was a few miles away before Portland and worked all day and nights. It was cool itself, also the next day I supposed to meet with Portland&#8217;s newspapers, so I was thinking about hanging somehow at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[432,219],"class_list":["post-4517","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\/4517","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=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}