{"id":14252,"date":"2020-04-21T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/?page_id=14252"},"modified":"2020-04-27T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:24:42","slug":"usa-the-dakotas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/usa-the-dakotas\/","title":{"rendered":"USA &#8211; The Dakotas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The previous year, on our flight in the Arrow to California, Juvy and I had enjoyed our brief visit to the Dakotas and surrounding states. So, 13 months on, we decided to take another trip and spend a bit more time in that region of the country. Mike, my friend from university and a private pilot, had been listening with envy to my tales of flying in the USA and so we invited him to come out and join us on our adventure in one of the flying club C172s. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"14919\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicgrid-gallery rl-hover-effect-2 rl-hover-icon-2\" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-09-29-14.48.19.jpg\" title=\"Charts for the flight\" data-rl_title=\"Charts for the flight\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-09-29-14.48.19-500x300.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"220\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Charts for the flight<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-10-01-13.13.58.jpg\" title=\"Dakotas team\" data-rl_title=\"Dakotas team\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-10-01-13.13.58-500x300.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"220\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Dakotas team<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-10-01-18.44.32-rotated.jpg\" title=\"Photography time\" data-rl_title=\"Photography time\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-10-01-18.44.32-500x300.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"220\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Photography time<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1H3TKn4PG2wDJu5TGHn_hNumhHf0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as North and South Dakota, we planned to spend some time in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana, as well as brief stops in other states on the way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike arrived a couple of days before we set out, and I introduced him to American life (including desserts with 2,500 calories), and finished our preparations. Soon it was time to set out on another adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/21\/dakotas-part-1-pittsburgh-pa-to-mitchell-sd\/\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> to start reading about the trip, or use the links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Section 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/21\/dakotas-part-1-pittsburgh-pa-to-mitchell-sd\/\">Pittsburgh, PA to Mitchell, SD<\/a><\/li><li>Section 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/21\/dakotas-part-2-mitchell-sd-to-spearfish-sd\/\">Mitchell, SD to Spearfish, SD<\/a><\/li><li>Section 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/dakotas-part-3-spearfish-sd-to-yellowstone-wy\/\">Spearfish, SD to Yellowstone, WY<\/a><\/li><li>Section 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/dakotas-part-4-yellowstone-wy-to-bismark-nd\/\">Yellowstone, WY to Bismark, ND<\/a><\/li><li>Section 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/dakotas-part-5-bismark-nd-to-pittsburgh-pa\/\">Bismark, ND to Pittsburgh, PA<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous year, on our flight in the Arrow to California, Juvy and I had enjoyed our brief visit to the Dakotas and surrounding states. So, 13 months on, we decided to take another trip and spend a bit more time in that region of the country. Mike, my friend from university and a private pilot, had been listening with envy to my tales of flying in the USA and so we invited him to come out and join us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/usa-the-dakotas\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14921,"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14252\/revisions\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}