{"id":16031,"date":"2022-06-27T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=16031"},"modified":"2022-07-04T22:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T21:35:39","slug":"transamerica-day-57-marion-to-sebree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/transamerica-day-57-marion-to-sebree\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion to Sebree. TransAmerica day 57"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

73.24km. 678m ascent. 3h56 ride time<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Today we needed a shorter day because we have been pushing quite hard. As it turned out we had a strong headwind so not as easy a day as we had hoped for.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Chutch hostel (L) in Marion<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Anyway the weather was perfect (except for the wind) and Kentucky is a beautiful green State<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We left our church hostel which was a great place to overnight with a good shower and bunk beds at about 08:30 as it was a short ride today<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Deadwood general store<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The road was quite narrow but very few vehicles on it so quite a pleasant route through what could be mistaken for England if it wasn\u2019t for the yellow lines in the middle of the road \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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School bus depot<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We had a few short climbs, but much less than previous days; if only the wind had been in the other direction \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Beautiful Kentucky<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We were really glad to arrive at our overnight church hostel in Sebree. This is a \u2018must\u2019 on the TransAmerica Trail. Kitchen, shower, food, pool table, table football, ping pong\u2026. AC\u2026.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Church hostel outside<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Church hostel inside<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

73.24km. 678m ascent. 3h56 ride time Today we needed a shorter day because we have been pushing quite hard. As it turned out we had a strong headwind so not as easy a day as we had hoped for. Anyway the weather was perfect (except for the wind) and Kentucky is a beautiful green State…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[14,54,60,20,62,82],"class_list":["post-16031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trans-american-bike-trail","tag-bike","tag-holiday","tag-hostel","tag-tat","tag-weather","tag-wind","category-22","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_0084-e1656970519724.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16016,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/goreville-to-marion-transamerica-day-56\/","url_meta":{"origin":16031,"position":0},"title":"Goreville to Marion. 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