{"id":1468,"date":"2015-07-14T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2015-07-14T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:24:08","slug":"i-go-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"I Go North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1469\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150714_132231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1469\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150714_132231-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"New to me!\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150714_132231-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150714_132231-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150714_132231.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New to me!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All the way from Grand Canyon to Lake Powell there were a gazillion travelers on the road. I thought being a Monday that there wouldn&#8217;t be as many tourists out, but it is the time of vacation and families are in full swing for recreation.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped at a few sights along the south rim. I have never been on the road east of the Grand Canyon &#8211; that I can remember &#8211; so enjoyed the viewpoints and stone tower along the way. Then it was vacation highway Rt.89 all the way into Page, AZ. where I spent the night at Walmart. It would have been better to cut off and head north through the cool climate of the Kaibab plateau as Richard suggested, but I needed supplies and chose the hot route by Lake Powell.  The afternoon in Page was brutal but a nice breeze came up after sundown and helped keep me cool through the night.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I am in the Dixie National Forest, half way between Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks in Utah. The altitude is high enough that the temperature is about perfect and oddly enough I have a pretty good cell signal. I will probably stay here for a few days and see what I can see before heading up to Idaho. I may stay in the mountains as I make my way north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the way from Grand Canyon to Lake Powell there were a gazillion travelers on the road. I thought being a Monday that there wouldn&#8217;t be as many tourists out, but it is the time of vacation and families are in full swing for recreation. I stopped at a few sights along the south rim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}