{"id":4205,"date":"2014-07-21T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:32:39","slug":"fredonia-n-y-to-macedonia-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/07\/fredonia-n-y-to-macedonia-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Fredonia, N.Y., to Macedonia, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a short drive today because we are visiting relatives this afternoon and evening. We got an early start, and as we were driving along we realized that it was a perfect beach day: hot, but not too hot, sunny, a light breeze. So we decided to go to the beach in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114a.jpg\" alt=\"Presque Isle, Penna.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Presque Isle, Penna.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are miles of beaches on Presque Isle, just north of Erie, with sand, seagulls, the occasional seashell, and reasonably warm water. If you&#8217;re willing to walk five minutes, you can get away from the crowded swimming beaches and have long stretches of sand pretty much to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Carol stood at the end of a low concrete wall, presumably there to control erosion, and looked across Lake Erie. If you looked carefully, you could just see a few big buildings on the opposite shore shimmering through the humidity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114c.jpg\" alt=\"BlogJul2114c\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114c.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114c-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Presque Isle, Penna.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We walked for over an hour on the beach. There were lots of small flat stones that were perfect for skipping, and I managed to skip one stone seven times before it sank into the water. We saw lots of interesting driftwood, too, and someone had built a couple of lean-to structures out of big pieces of driftwood, sort of like the forts kids build in the woods.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114b.jpg\" alt=\"Preque Isle, Penna.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul2114b-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Presque Isle, Penna.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was pretty idyllic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a short drive today because we are visiting relatives this afternoon and evening. We got an early start, and as we were driving along we realized that it was a perfect beach day: hot, but not too hot, sunny, a light breeze. So we decided to go to the beach in western Pennsylvania. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/07\/fredonia-n-y-to-macedonia-ohio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fredonia, N.Y., to Macedonia, Ohio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[956],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","tag-2014-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}