{"id":1632,"date":"2015-03-21T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2015-03-20T23:22:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T06:22:51","slug":"the-great-southwest-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/the-great-southwest-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Southwest Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I leave today\u00a0on a 3,500 mile road trip through Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Arizona, including several days at the Mariners&#8217; Spring Training. \u00a0I have always dreamed of this kind of extended trip, but the only times I&#8217;ve done something remotely approaching it was 25 years ago\u00a0 when\u00a0we went to pick up Jason in Illinois at the end of his freshman year, and a trip with my uncle to Yellowstone, probably 20 years ago or so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1633\" src=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/road-trip-map-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"road trip map\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/road-trip-map-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/road-trip-map.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This trip will include a few days with my cousin Bill and his wife Sue in Phoenix for Spring Training and stops at the scenic national parks in Utah and northern Arizona. \u00a0My long-time friend Roger is going with me to Phoenix, but he&#8217;ll be flying back, and Bill will join me for at least part of the northbound trip.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t really tell all the stops along the way, but I will be reporting and posting photos of our stops.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-1632 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1632' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-1632 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-1632 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1632' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-1632 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1632 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave today\u00a0on a 3,500 mile road trip through Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Arizona, including several days at the Mariners&#8217; Spring Training. \u00a0I have always dreamed of this kind of extended trip, but the only times I&#8217;ve done something remotely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/the-great-southwest-road-trip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-news","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}