{"id":263,"date":"2011-09-27T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T02:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-10-12T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T01:41:04","slug":"southwest-tour-2011-day-4-off-the-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Tour 2011 &#8211; Day 4.  Off to the Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2838-X2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271\" title=\"IMG2838-X2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2838-X2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2838-X2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2838-X2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hoover Dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2859-X2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-267\" title=\"IMG2859-X2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2859-X2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2859-X2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2859-X2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG2859-X2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grand Canyon at Mather Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today was a travel day from Vegas to the Grand Canyon. Mostly interstate driving with the last 100km on a two lane highway.<br \/>\nThe day started off with a trip to the Hoover Dam. Quite the structure. Ok, that\u2019s an understatement. This thing is huge! The pictures don\u2019t even come close to showing how deep the dam is.<br \/>\nFrom there it was off to the canyon. Once paying my vehicle entrance fee ($25US for 7 days) it was a quick trip to the campsite to set up home for the next three nights.<br \/>\nThen it was time to see what the canyon was all about. My first impressions? Holy Cow! I can\u2019t describe the width and depth of the canyon. I hope the pictures give you some idea of the size, but it is something you have to see for yourself. I took multipole pictures of the same rock formations during my brief first trip. the sun was setting and the colours were changing. Have a look on <a href=\"http:\/\/icenrye.smugmug.com\/Travel\/Southwest-Tour-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my SmugMug set<\/a> and notice the difference waiting 20 minutes can make on the light.<br \/>\nOn a side note, there is no cell service in the park, however, there is free wifi at some of the area lodges. The cool thing is that everyone is in the lodge on their computers uploading the days photographs. It\u2019s quite the show with everyone checking out other\u2019s pictures and coming up with their own ideas for future pics.<br \/>\nAs for tomorrow, I\u2019m taking two bus tours. One is an early morning departure and 3.5 hours in duration. The second is a sunset tour and I\u2019m really looking forward to that trip.<br \/>\nHow will tomorrow\u2019s pictures look? Stay tuned to this blog to find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a travel day from Vegas to the Grand Canyon. Mostly interstate driving with the last 100km on a two lane highway. The day started off with a trip to the Hoover Dam. Quite the structure. Ok, that\u2019s an understatement. This thing is huge! The pictures don\u2019t even come close to showing how deep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/?p=263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Southwest Tour 2011 &#8211; Day 4.  Off to the Grand Canyon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}