{"id":1939,"date":"2012-08-20T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:47","slug":"grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"Elvis and the Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wpid-IMAG0945.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a good night sleep despite having to climb down the ladder in the middle of the night for a wee.<\/p>\n<p>It was such a beautiful place to camp. We had breakfast\u00a0 overlooking the reflections\u00a0 on the lake. <\/p>\n<p>We stopped in the little town of Williams to top up with fuel, coffee and some Elvis photos.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at the Grand Canyon around lunchtime and did a walk along the rim. There were afternoon thunder storms and rain so the view wasn&#8217;t as spectacular as other times we&#8217;ve been here, but it was cool watching the lightning over the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>We had a nice quiet campsite in the Mather campground near the main part of the canyon. There are Elk wandering around the campsite. <\/p>\n<p>We spent a heavy downpour in the van playing monopoly which was fun. Then we went and watched the sun set behind the clouds over the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>It was dark when we got back to camp so we lit a fire and cooked a tuna pasta in the dark. It was yummy, but a bit freaky eating it in the dark, worrying about spiders falling out of the trees into our food.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put some more photos up later.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. for Liz or Heather &#8211;  There is no phone reception here which is why Susan hasn&#8217;t phoned home yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a good night sleep despite having to climb down the ladder in the middle of the night for a wee. It was such a beautiful place to camp. We had breakfast\u00a0 overlooking the reflections\u00a0 on the lake. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=1939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-vh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}