{"id":53,"date":"2008-06-12T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/53\/california-dreaming\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:57:48","slug":"california-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/california-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, our vacation is driving to Sarah&#8217;s sister Lynn&#8217;s house in  California to pick up her three kids for the summer.  They&#8217;ll be staying  at our house and with their other Utah relatives for a couple of  months.  We borrowed Judy&#8217;s van and packed up our kids on Tuesday  morning for the ride.<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday, 06\/10\/2008 &#8211; West Valley City to Reno, NV<\/h2>\n<p>What&#8217;s with the letter W on this trip?  So far we&#8217;ve stopped in the  towns of Wendover\/West Wendover, Wells and Winnemucca.  If we weren&#8217;t  staying in Reno tonight, I&#8217;d think we were cursed to see only Ws through  the whole trip.  Walla Walla, Washington, here we come!<\/p>\n<p>We grabbed dinner at an Indian place a couple of blocks&#8217; walk  from the hotel.  The food was plentiful and cheap, but Audrey wouldn&#8217;t  touch most of it.  (What else is new?)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View - 2008 California Vacation - Curtis' assessment of  Room 126 at the Atlantis resort hotel\" href=\"\/pictures\/244\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/thumbs\/CaliforniaVacation08-Atlantis-CurtisThumbsDown.jpg\" alt=\"2008 California Vacation - Curtis' assessment of Room 126 at the  Atlantis resort hotel\" width=\"96\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>Our room at the Atlantis casino and resort is  pretty crummy &#8212; small, a little bit dingy, and there are at least  three different kinds of flying bugs in there &#8212; one of which bit me.   The pool area was undergoing construction, but we still had fun playing  there tonight.<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday, 06\/11\/2008 &#8211; Reno, NV to Crescent City, CA<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"View - 2008 California Vacation - Audrey at an amazing  McDonald's playland\" href=\"\/pictures\/243\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/thumbs\/CaliforniaVacation08-McDonalds-Audrey.jpg\" alt=\"2008 California Vacation - Audrey at an amazing McDonald's  playland\" width=\"84\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>We stopped at the McDonald&#8217;s in Susanville, California for  Sarah to feed Nathan.  Audrey saw the playland and said, &#8220;This place is  amazing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve worked our way through just about all of the music we had  on CD and now I&#8217;m playing music from the laptop out through the tape  deck adaptor.  We&#8217;re going to mooch some blank CDs from Lynn when we get  to her house tonight and I&#8217;ll burn more music for the trip home.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View - 2008 California Vacation - Curtis in Redwood  National Park\" href=\"\/pictures\/242\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/thumbs\/CaliforniaVacation08-Redwoods-Curtis.jpg\" alt=\"2008 California Vacation - Curtis in Redwood National Park\" width=\"34\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>Lynn&#8217;s  house in Crescent City is just about 20 minutes down U.S. 101 from  Redwood National Park.  Just before we got here tonight we stopped to  take a couple of photos of us by the giant trees.  In the one of me, I&#8217;m  barely a speck next to this massive pillar of wood stretching into the  sky.  (When we loaded it into the computer and copied and pasted me a  few times, we found that it went 13 Curtii high before it went out of  the frame &#8212; meaning the tree was at least 78 feet tall, but I wouldn&#8217;t  be surprised if it was double that or more.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, our vacation is driving to Sarah&#8217;s sister Lynn&#8217;s house in California to pick up her three kids for the summer. They&#8217;ll be staying at our house and with their other Utah relatives for a couple of months. We borrowed Judy&#8217;s van and packed up our kids on Tuesday morning for the ride. Tuesday,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/california-dreaming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Dreaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[68,69,160],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation","tag-california","tag-durkees","tag-vacation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}