{"id":220,"date":"2014-07-20T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-07-20T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:26:45","slug":"grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in the evening and after setting up our tent were treated to this view from the lodge deck:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-20140716_184247.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:1000px;max-width:1000px;\" title=\"wpid-20140716_184247.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-20140716_184247.jpg?w=1000\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We had dinner at the lodge dining room.&nbsp; The food was good but the view non-existent as we were seated away from the windows which was not appreciated.&nbsp; The lodge is old, so I can imagine tens of thousands before us thinking the same.&nbsp;&nbsp; Why didnt they build a riser in the back half of the dining room?<\/p>\n<p>The next morning we walked to the lodge from the campground along the transept trail, where we reached several nice view points <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-2014-07-17-08.50.15.jpg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:1000px;max-width:1000px;\" title=\"wpid-2014-07-17-08.50.15.jpg.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-2014-07-17-08.50.15.jpg.jpeg?w=1000\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>After coffee and muffins at the saloon, we enjoyed the deck for another hour or so before walking back to the campground.&nbsp; We packed up and headed out to the Walhalla Plateau penninsula, a long drive through forest with several interesting viewpoints.&nbsp; This one, at Angels Window, and another at Cape Final were spectaculsr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-2014-07-20-08.15.05.jpg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:1000px;max-width:1000px;\" title=\"wpid-2014-07-20-08.15.05.jpg.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-2014-07-20-08.15.05.jpg.jpeg?w=1000\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In the late afternoon we decided against staying another night, and headed off to Las Vegas via Hwy 389 through the Paiute Reservstion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in the evening and after setting up our tent were treated to this view from the lodge deck: We had dinner at the lodge dining room.&nbsp; The food was good but the view non-existent as we were seated away from the windows which was not appreciated.&nbsp; The lodge is old, so I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}