{"id":1484,"date":"2015-07-06T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:56:07","slug":"death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_3725.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_3725.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;Whew. You want to talk about heat! We drove through Death Valley today. Originally it was a 6 hour trip. However, driving a 40ft rv while towing our grand cherokee turned it into an 11.5 hour trip. I am so glad that we left early. I didn&#8217;t realize the amount of mountains we would drive up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_3732.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_3732.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;I also didn&#8217;t realize how hot brakes would get going downhill. We actually had to pull over while they cooled down. &nbsp;I miscalculated the amount of steep grades and will try to post some pictures later that may give you an idea of how steep it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_3743.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_3743.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;We ended our dad at Del Mar Beach on Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, VA. &nbsp;We will stay here for a short time and will get to visit my cousin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take care y&#8217;all&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Whew. You want to talk about heat! We drove through Death Valley today. Originally it was a 6 hour trip. However, driving a 40ft rv while towing our grand cherokee turned it into an 11.5 hour trip. I am so glad that we left early. I didn&#8217;t realize the amount of mountains we would drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}