{"id":1713,"date":"2020-08-03T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2020-08-04T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:12:30","slug":"back-in-the-saddle-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Back in the saddle again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another year and another trip underway. This year I am driving my travel trailer to California to pick up my nieces and my nephew. Since we have a travel trailer we can be self contained.  I can order groceries and pick them up at the store with no contact. I also brought a bunch of games and crafts to keep the kids busy and away from others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we won\u2019t be visiting a ton of places, we will be driving within easy sight distance so the kids will be able to view the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Mt Rushmore. It will take us 2 weeks to return to Virginia and while I do have to hop out and pump gas we can semi quarantine while we travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My great friend, Margie, is along for the ride and she has brought her dog Max (Dave\u2019s youngest is going to be so excited to meet him). Max has his own Instagram page <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mad_max_adventure\" target=\"_blank\">Max_Mad_Adventure<\/a> so there will be quite a few pictures posted there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5908.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5908.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5908-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5908-1000x1024.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5908-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5908-768x786.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" \/><figcaption>Max all tuckered out <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was a long drive to Sevierville\/Pigeon Forge TN. I was happy to see they still have the wooden go cart multi level track that I took the boys to back in 2014. This trip we stayed at a KOA which is quite packed and I needed several blocks to be level. It was really nice that they had express check in and came out to my vehicle and had someone in a golf cart take us to our spot. Since we are self contained I most likely won\u2019t use the showers or laundry so I can\u2019t let anyone know about those. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1237\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5902.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5902.jpg 1237w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5902-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5902-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5902-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_5902-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1237px) 100vw, 1237px\" \/><figcaption>Wooden go cart track<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Take care y\u2019all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year and another trip underway. This year I am driving my travel trailer to California to pick up my nieces and my nephew. Since we have a travel trailer we can be self contained. I can order groceries and pick them up at the store with no contact. I also brought a bunch of [&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-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}