{"id":74,"date":"2009-07-21T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-07-21T03:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:33:00","slug":"day-3-santa-rosa-colorado-springs-1000-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Santa Rosa -&gt; Colorado Springs 1000+ miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SmU476y3WJI\/AAAAAAAAANE\/pUJ_hTzisbg\/s1600-h\/P1010531.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SmU476y3WJI\/AAAAAAAAANE\/pUJ_hTzisbg\/s320\/P1010531.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Today we drove to Colorado Springs, Colorado.  We stopped for a quick lunch in Raton, New Mexico.  Once in Colorado Springs, we headed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenofgods.com\/home\/index.cfm\">Garden of the Gods<\/a>, a city park.  Our GPS unit actually had better directions than the city signs, but we didn&#8217;t trust it initially, so it took us a while to find our destination.  But when we did&#8230; WOW!<\/p>\n<p>Garden of the Gods features some amazing stone formations that are striking against the lush greenery of the area.  Most of the formations are a deep red, the plants are a lush green, and the sky was a bright blue.  It was beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SmU4kaTJ4FI\/AAAAAAAAAM8\/8GhCjqkwnhk\/s1600-h\/P1010543.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SmU4kaTJ4FI\/AAAAAAAAAM8\/8GhCjqkwnhk\/s320\/P1010543.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Then we had dinner at a nice local restaurant &#8211; The Mason Jar.  Tomorrow we will spend most of the day in Colorado Springs &#8212; Pike&#8217;s Peak, Air Force Academy, and whatever else we find.  Then tomorrow night we will visit an observatory in Denver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SmU5hA6KGzI\/AAAAAAAAANM\/Y1opYnFAX44\/s1600-h\/GOG-visitorscenter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SmU5hA6KGzI\/AAAAAAAAANM\/Y1opYnFAX44\/s1600\/GOG-visitorscenter.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we drove to Colorado Springs, Colorado. We stopped for a quick lunch in Raton, New Mexico. Once in Colorado Springs, we headed for Garden of the Gods, a city park. Our GPS unit actually had better directions than the city signs, but we didn&#8217;t trust it initially, so it took us a while to [&hellip;]<\/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\/74"}],"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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}