{"id":8608,"date":"2023-07-21T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2023-07-23T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:31:41","slug":"duckys-last-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/duckys-last-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducky’s Last Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About 10 years ago, we found Ducky sitting on a picnic table in a campground in southern Colorado. I put him on the dashboard of the truck, where he has ridden for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, at the last minute before leaving on a trip to Peru, I grabbed Ducky from the dash. Anytime he came out, he brought smiles to faces<\/a>. I remember passing through security in a small airport, seeing bored guards light up and grin at each other as Ducky came through the scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ducky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was only natural that Ducky traveled with us to Iceland. For no good reason, he remained hidden much of the trip. However, the day I rode shotgun beside our guide and van driver, Daniel, Ducky took his place on the dash for the next few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow, I forgot him. Somehow, no one noticed him on the dash. That is until Daniel was returning the van. I wish I had jumped in my rental car and braved the trip to Reykjavik to rescue Ducky, but I did not. I accepted too easily that he would be fine in Iceland, his ultimate migration. Sorry, old friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ducky in his element<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About 10 years ago, we found Ducky sitting on a picnic table in a campground in southern Colorado. I put him on the dashboard of the truck, where he has ridden for years. In 2015, at the last minute before leaving on a trip to Peru, I grabbed Ducky from the dash. Anytime he came … Continue reading Ducky’s Last Ride<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,218,215],"tags":[219,217],"class_list":["post-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-travel","category-trips","tag-ducky","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8614,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}