{"id":55573,"date":"2023-08-04T02:58:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55573"},"modified":"2023-08-04T02:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T02:58:03","slug":"ohio-just-out-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55573","title":{"rendered":"Ohio: just out of reach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>CAIRO, Ill<\/strong>. &#8212; I had hoped to knock one more state off my &#8220;never been there&#8221; list on my current trek east from North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I fell short by about 50 miles.<\/p>\n<p>I have set foot in 48 of our 50 states. The only two states left to visit are New Jersey and Ohio. Let me state that I have been to Newark\/Liberty International Airport twice, but that doesn&#8217;t count. I do not count airport stops as &#8220;visiting&#8221; a nation or a state. Indeed, I have been to Zurich, Switzerland&#8217;s airport a few times and to Hong Kong&#8217;s airport once. I do not count those places among my list of nations I have seen.<\/p>\n<p>A quick aside &#8230; My wife and I went to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2006. Our flight itinerary brought us home via London Heathrow airport; we would catch a flight to Texas from Gatwick airport. My wife, using her creativity, booked a cab ride from Heathrow to Gatwick and then built in a tour of Windsor Castle en route. Thus, we were able to say we &#8220;visited Great Britain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was coming out of Charleston, W. Va., two days ago. My GPS guided me along Interstate 64 west out of Charleston. I had thought it would take me to Ohio. Nope. I exited West Virginia and entered <em>Kentucky<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; there you have it. Ohio remains on my list of states to visit.<\/p>\n<p>I have the time now to get into my truck and head there. Hmm. I suspect another quick trip just might be in order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, Ill. &#8212; I had hoped to knock one more state off my &#8220;never been there&#8221; list on my current trek east from North Texas. Alas, I fell short by about 50 miles. I have set foot in 48 of our 50 states. The only two states left to visit are New Jersey and Ohio. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ohio: just out of reach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3920,4891,7128],"class_list":["post-55573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-travel","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55574,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55573\/revisions\/55574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}