{"id":2225,"date":"2009-10-23T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/travel-strategies\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:09:54","slug":"travel-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/travel-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/apache-camp.jpg' title='apache-camp.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/apache-camp.thumbnail.jpg' alt='apache-camp.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>Our last vacation to Arizona was the second time this year we rented a trailer. This time, however, we did not rent the trailer until we were over in the Phoenix area. I figured that we could save some time and expense by heading out early to the rental facility in Mesa, Arizona, and camp a few miles from there on our first night at Apache Junction, so that&#8217;s what we did. <\/p>\n<p>This image is from the morning after as we were getting ready to break camp and hitch up to head out to a part of Arizona neither of us had ever visited. Click the image to enlarge to full size.<\/p>\n<p>We can report a lesson learned on this trip; driving the six or seven hour trip straight through to Mesa takes a lot out of us. On the way back, Verna had the idea that we should stop at a pet-friendly motel somewhere near the halfway point. I found one just a few hundred yards from the Colorado River along I-10 in Ehrenberg, Arizona. We were able to relax there, &#8220;Bear&#8221; was welcome (with a modest pet cleaning charge) and we watched Monday Night Football as opposed to going another almost four more hours to get home.<\/p>\n<p>Good choice &#8211; next time, we&#8217;ll stay there on the way out to Mesa as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our last vacation to Arizona was the second time this year we rented a trailer. This time, however, we did not rent the trailer until we&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}