{"id":216893596,"date":"2012-01-14T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893596"},"modified":"2012-01-14T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:56:59","slug":"north-by-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893596","title":{"rendered":"North by North West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Wednesday, I spent an enjoyable few hours cycling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz\/moving-around\/biking-cycleways\/MapsAndMore\/Pages\/NorthWesternCycleRouteAuckland.aspx\">North West Cycle Route<\/a> end-to-end and back again shadowing, as I did, part of the route I commute along to my office. Along the way,\u00a0I met and chatted to a few folks\u00a0and I enjoyed getting new perspectives on the journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0544.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0544.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0544\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;\">Graffiti in Point Chevalier<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0547.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0547.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0547\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Newton signage&#8230;with my office building in the distance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0554.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0554.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0554\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Landscaping between Bond Street and St Lukes Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0570.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0570.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0570\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Heading north from Traherne Island to Rosebank Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0555.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0555.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0555\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Recycled hoarding in Kingsland garden nr. St Lukes Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"IMG_0543.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0543.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0543\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Heading south across Henderson Creek behind a companionable Doctor. As I rode with her and her family, we discussed sustainability, her doctoral research exploring healthy transport policy and legal aspects of liability in commissioning local infrastructure. \u00a0Always interesting to talk to others on their travels &#8211; something I can&#8217;t do commuting in my car along the same route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0568.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0568.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0568\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rider&#8217;s eye view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I spent an enjoyable few hours cycling the North West Cycle Route end-to-end and back again shadowing, as I did, part of the route I commute along to my office. Along the way,\u00a0I met and chatted to a few folks\u00a0and I enjoyed getting new perspectives on the journey. Graffiti in Point Chevalier Newton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,29,25,441],"tags":[11,620,623,622,621],"class_list":["post-216893596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-images","category-life","category-places","tag-auckland","tag-bike","tag-graffiti","tag-north-west-cycle-route","tag-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216893596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893598,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893596\/revisions\/216893598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216893596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216893596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216893596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}