{"id":46,"date":"2010-06-09T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-06-09T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T03:09:00","slug":"volcanos-indian-ruins-grand-canyon-and-london-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Volcanos, Indian Ruins, Grand Canyon, and London Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

We headed north from Flagstaff to the east entrance of the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 We stopped along the way at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument<\/a> (which sits alongside Wupatki National Monument<\/a>). There is a 31-mile drive that takes you through both sites.\u00a0 (It is not a loop drive, so it takes you about 15 miles down highway 89.<\/p>\n

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Sunset Crater Volcano was an interesting site.\u00a0 There is a large wash of volcanic rock that was impressive, and there are attractive views of the region.\u00a0 Lots of pine trees and mountains.<\/p>\n

As you transfer over into Wupatki, there are a series of VERY impressive pueblo ruins.\u00a0 And even more impressive, the park service allows you to climb all over some of them.\u00a0 We really enjoyed the largest ruin with several rooms and a large tower.<\/p>\n

When we left Wupatki, we drove on up to the Grand Canyon, driving in the East Entrance.\u00a0 We drove from the East Entrance to the South Visitor Center, stopping at most of the great views along the way.\u00a0 The canyon just goes on, and on, and on!\u00a0 We had intended to take the shuttle bus that takes you from the Visitor Center area to a couple of lookout points that are not accessible by personal car.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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However, it was getting late in the afternoon (and the line for the bus was pretty long), so we headed on down to Havasu Lake City where we were spending the night.\u00a0 If you haven’t heard of Lake Havasu City, that’s the current location of the original London Bridge.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow we head to Calfornia:\u00a0 Joshua Tree National Park, a visiting my college roommate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We headed north from Flagstaff to the east entrance of the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 We stopped along the way at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (which sits alongside Wupatki National Monument). There is a 31-mile drive that takes you through both sites.\u00a0 (It is not a loop drive, so it takes you about 15 miles down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}