{"id":13763,"date":"2017-12-23T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2017-12-23T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:48:42","slug":"rolling-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=13763","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11623\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/biggreensubaru.jpg\" alt=\"Subaru Userpic\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" \/>The user pics (those icons on posts at the top, to the right) have traced the evolution of how I have traveled since I joined LiveJournal back in 2004. From personal vehicles to vanpools, through Hondas, Toyotas, and now Subaru, they&#8217;ve shown how I&#8217;ve gotten from there to here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5046\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpictravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"61\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4997\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicmatrix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"71\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5051\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicvanpooling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"75\" \/>From my wife&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecarconnection.com\/overview\/honda_cr-v_2002\">2002<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honda_CR-V\">Honda CRV<\/a>, to my recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecarconnection.com\/overview\/toyota_matrix_2006\">2006<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toyota_Matrix\">Toyota Matrix<\/a> (which replaced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cars.com\/research\/honda-civic-1999\/\">1999<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honda_Civic\">Honda Civic<\/a> that got <a href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1449\">cow-tipped<\/a>), and to the Matrix&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11541\">replacement<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11622\">2016 Subaru Impreza<\/a>; from all the various vanpool vehicles I&#8217;ve driven. All have been portrayed in userpic.<\/p>\n<p>For the last few days, I&#8217;ve been teasing a different picture on my Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/7OSIvwQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13764\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outbackoutback.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outbackoutback.jpg 325w, https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outbackoutback-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar, this is a picture of a Outback towing an Outback, parked in the outback of an Outback. There was a reason: we were in the process of replacing my wife&#8217;s car. ALthough she picked out the car last Saturday, it took a week because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galpinsubaru.com\/\">the car dealer&#8217;s<\/a> server was down. Mind you, this didn&#8217;t shut down just one dealership, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galpin.com\/\">an entire family of dealerships<\/a>, the week before Christmas. The server came back on Thursday. Friday we were out in Santa Clarita, and I posted another picture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13765\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outback-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outback-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outback-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outback-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/outback.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are now a two-Subaru family, having added a 2018 Outback to the family for my wife. Guess it is time to make a new userpic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The user pics (those icons on posts at the top, to the right) have traced the evolution of how I have traveled since I joined LiveJournal back in 2004. From personal vehicles to vanpools, through Hondas, Toyotas, and now Subaru, they&#8217;ve shown how I&#8217;ve gotten from there to here: &nbsp; From my wife&#8217;s 2002 Honda <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=13763\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status","tag-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13774,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}