{"id":1346,"date":"2016-06-10T07:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:39:13","slug":"all-work-and-no-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"All Work and No Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makes Bill a Dull Boy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160227_080618.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160227_080618.jpg?resize=840%2C472\" alt=\"20160227_080618\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the fall of last year, I have been spending way too much time working in the island country of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.\u00a0\u00a0I certainly can\u2019t complain about the accommodations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160324_135650.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160324_135650.jpg?resize=840%2C385\" alt=\"20160324_135650\" width=\"840\" height=\"385\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been\u00a0virtually one project right after the other and I am looking forward to getting it\u00a0all of done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160517_075222.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2302\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160517_075222.jpg?resize=840%2C472\" alt=\"20160517_075222\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The work is certainly rewarding but I am ready to get back home\u00a0to be with family and friends and\u00a0back on some dirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160429_151602.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160429_151602.jpg?resize=840%2C361\" alt=\"20160429_151602\" width=\"840\" height=\"361\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not this kind of dirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenEagle-15MAR154-06.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1868\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenEagle-15MAR154-06.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"GoldenEagle-15MAR154-06\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This kind of dirt!<\/p>\n<p>So with all of this time I have had over here to pour through all of the MTB resources over here, \u00a0I\u00a0have boiled down things into my\u00a0number one tip for planning a mountain biking\u00a0trip to Bahrain\u2026..<\/p>\n<h2><strong>DON\u2019T!<\/strong> This place sucks for mountain biking!<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m sure you could make some kind of lemonade\u00a0with the bitter\u00a0lemons of this place.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe\u00a0with a\u00a0Fatbike and riding at night when its only like 95 but really try\u00a0Death Valley in\u00a0summer first.<\/p>\n<!-- Begin Yuzo --><div class='yuzo_related_post style-1'  data-version='5.12.81'><!-- without result --><div class='yuzo_clearfixed yuzo__title yuzo__title'><h3>More Stuff Like This<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"relatedthumb \" style=\"width:165px;float:left;overflow:hidden;\">  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=3091\"  >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"yuzo-img-wrap \" style=\"width: 165px;height:130px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"yuzo-img\" style=\"background:url('http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BW-MBBLogo.gif') 50% 50% no-repeat;width: 165px;height:130px;margin-bottom: 5px;background-size: cover; 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It has been\u00a0virtually one project right after the other and I am looking forward to getting it\u00a0all of done. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Work and No Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,8,10,147],"tags":[543,581],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-mtb","category-non-mtb","category-rants","category-travels","tag-bahrain","tag-cdfw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6eIyB-lI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}