{"id":4034,"date":"2016-10-04T03:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2016-10-04T04:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:06:39","slug":"our-trip-to-the-west-coast-in-a-piper-dakota-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/our-trip-to-the-west-coast-in-a-piper-dakota-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Our trip to the west coast in a Piper Dakota (cont&#8217;d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4035 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/route.png\" alt=\"route\" width=\"2735\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/route.png 2735w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/route-150x63.png 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/route-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/route-1024x431.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/route-1200x505.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above map shows our entire three week trip.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting the west coast, we began our trip back east on the south side of the border, stopping off for a couple of days in Glacier National Park in Montana. Our car trip up Going-to-the-sun-road was way more scary than being in the plane:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/z6SFypNtqwxrTU7t6\">Going-to-the-sun-road<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/glacier.jpg\" alt=\"glacier\" width=\"984\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/glacier.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/glacier-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/glacier-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We continued east through North Dakota:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northdak-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"northdak\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northdak-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northdak-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northdak-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northdak-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the terrain changed as we got closer to Minnesota:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/minni2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"minni2\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/minni2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/minni2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/minni2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/minni2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stayed over in St. Paul and planned to fly directly home the next day but a storm got in our way:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/storm-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"storm\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/storm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/storm-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/storm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/storm-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So we landed in Saginaw Michigan and stayed overnight to weather out the storm.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160813_175132-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"20160813_175132\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160813_175132-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160813_175132-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160813_175132-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160813_175132-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above map shows our entire three week trip. After visiting the west coast, we began our trip back east on the south side of the border, stopping off for a couple of days in Glacier National Park in Montana. Our car trip up Going-to-the-sun-road was way more scary than being in the plane: Going-to-the-sun-road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/our-trip-to-the-west-coast-in-a-piper-dakota-contd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our trip to the west coast in a Piper Dakota (cont&#8217;d)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}