{"id":80,"date":"2005-08-02T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/road-trip\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T05:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:39:04","slug":"road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/road-trip.html","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from a three week road trip. It was amazing. We had lots of fun and shot thousands of photos. It will take several weeks before I get the images organized and available online, so for now some summary statistics of the trip will have to suffice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21 days<\/li>\n<li>4500 miles with lots of hikes and mountain biking.<\/li>\n<li>5700 photos occupying 130 gigabytes<\/li>\n<li>7 National Parks and Monuments: Zion, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Olympic, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Saint Helens, Crater Lake.<\/li>\n<li>7 States: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California.<\/li>\n<li>3 Aquariums (Seattle, Steinhart, Monterey Bay)<\/li>\n<li>13 Geysers including Old Faithful, Riverside, Daisy, Grand, White Dome, Pink Cone, Castle, Great Fountain, Grotto, Echinus, Anemone and Lion geysers.<\/li>\n<li>17 Waterfalls including Upper and Lower Yellowstone, Gibbon, Lewis, Moose, Kepler, Firehole, Virginia Cascade, Undine, Rustic, Sol Duc, Marymere, Myrtle, Christine and Narada Falls.<\/li>\n<li>Many wild animals including gray wolf, moose, grizzly bear, black bear and cinnamon-colored black bear, elk, bison, coyote, golden and bald eagle, osprey, blacktail and whitetail deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, marmot, chipmunk, squirrels, banana slug, wild turkey, long-tailed weasel, rabbits and some rabbit-like thing known as a pika.<\/li>\n<li>Endless displays of wildflowers in Grand Teton and Mt. Rainier.<\/li>\n<li>Several volcanoes: Rainier, Hood, Adams, St. Helens, Shasta, Crater Lake. Even saw St. Helens letting off some steam.<\/li>\n<li>Too many rivers and streams to count.<\/li>\n<li>One full moon rising behind the Space Needle in Seattle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The office hangover when we returned is considerable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30+ as-yet-unanswered phone messages.<\/li>\n<li>1800 emails after filtering out the obvious spam.<\/li>\n<li>5-inch high pile of mail, after tossing the junk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from a three week road trip. It was amazing. We had lots of fun and shot thousands of photos. It will take several weeks before I get the images organized and available online, so for now some summary statistics of the trip will have to suffice: 21 days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-photography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}