{"id":44,"date":"2021-07-20T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/?p=44"},"modified":"2021-07-20T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:35:11","slug":"traveling-as-a-retireeoptions-and-more-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Traveling as a retiree\u2026options and more options!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_0043-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_0043-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_0043-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Our first trip since I have retired was by car &#8211; specifically our new red Ford Escape hybrid. It is fully flat towable behind King Tut, our RV. Anyway, this trip was in Little Red to go and visit with Cherie and make a quick visit at the Grand Canyon. Cherie is currently midway through her second clinical at the Whiteriver Indian Health hospital on the Whiteriver Apache reservation. That is near Pinetop, Arizona in the mountains somewhere in the middle of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Let me start off by saying it was hot &#8211; crazy hot and the Grand Canyon was packed! I thought we were crazy people to go in July but we were using Cherie\u2019s schedule. So like we always do, we just went very early. Packed our breakfast and we\u2019re on the bus by 5:30 am. On and off with Dave taking lots of pictures! As we headed back to the visitor center at 9:00 am, we could see the packed buses headed out. On Sunday,  we were up for the sunrise at Mather Point with a whole lot of people who were also nuts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">As we left the Grand Canyon we went the long way back to Pinetop. We stopped at the Wupatki National Monument and walked to the Pueblo buildings. As far as we could in the extreme heat!  The on to the Sunset Crater lava fields. And finally dinner with Cherie\u2019s roommate from Emory, Bridget. Then off to return home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">If you want to see all the great pictures Dave took here is the link.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-midnight-gradient-background has-background\" href=\"http:\/\/Www.Photos.murbook.family\/?p=188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dave\u2019s Photos <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first trip since I have retired was by car &#8211; specifically our new red Ford Escape hybrid. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}