{"id":2374,"date":"2009-11-27T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2009-11-27T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:31:22","slug":"montana-de-oro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Montana de oro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Chad put it, our best Thanksgiving ever. I was only sad not to spend it with Bella, but she spent her Thanksgiving with her dad in Joshua Tree (and was very excited about experiencing Black Friday at the Cabazon Outlet Mall).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">North view from the bluff walk.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">We spent the first day walking along the bluff to the south - this is all walking distance from our campground.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1358.jpg\" alt=\"When we hit the fence, we headed inland up Coon Creek.\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">When we got to the fence we headed inland up Coon Creek.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The air was extra-oxygenated from all the pounding surf, and we felt invigorated, despite having got up at 3 am.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1344.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical layered sedimentary rock formations along the coast.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up, because I spent the whole trip marveling over the rock.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">We managed to use only cloth diapers on this trip - here&#39;s Christian reading The Foot Book while on the can.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Thanksgiving day we spent the morning at a private beach, and in the afternoon we hiked through sand dunes to Hazard Reef.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was some of the most desolate and beautiful beach I&#39;ve experienced.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I went for a swim, but as I didn&#39;t have my suit, we didn&#39;t take any pictures.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beach went on for miles and we only saw birds.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">We hiked through a eucalyptus forest as the sun was setting and got lots of God light.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back to the parking lot, and then camp, where we had the most delicious roasted chili dogs ever (over a eucalyptus wood fire).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking back at the campground entrance from Spooner Cove.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_1427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Spooner Cove this morning, just before leaving for a hotel room and hot shower in Santa Barbara.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Chad put it, our best Thanksgiving ever. I was only sad not to spend it with Bella, but she spent her Thanksgiving with her dad in Joshua Tree (and was very excited about experiencing Black Friday at the Cabazon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}