{"id":10533,"date":"2016-12-30T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=10533"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:46:32","slug":"man-tripping-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/12\/30\/man-tripping-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Tripping No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Man Trip finished up yesterday with a morning visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikivoyage.org\/wiki\/Carrizo_Plain_National_Monument\">Carrizo Plain National Monument<\/a>, a virtually unknown national monument west of Bakersfield.  The park is home to Soda Lake, which is supposedly an internationally-known area for birds, but the last time I visited it was completely dry.  This time I left Bakersfield and spent an hour and a half meandering through the hills, oil fields and solar farms of Kern County before arriving at Soda Lake, which despite several recent storms was still bone dry; I think I heard the universe laughing at me.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the dry lake it was still nice to be reminded how nice silence is &#8211; the modern world is constantly filled with the sound of cars or appliances or planes, but you don&#8217;t realize it until you&#8217;re in a place that is just completely still, and I sat at the end of a boardwalk for about an hour just enjoying the peace.  Afterwards I wandered a bit more before pointing the car towards home, where I&#8217;ll hopefully get some rest and recharge before starting off the 2017 work year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sunset at the Kern NWR\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2016-12-A\/0742-kern-nwr-sunset.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Taken during sunset at the Kern NWR.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Man Trip finished up yesterday with a morning visit to the Carrizo Plain National Monument, a virtually unknown national monument west of Bakersfield. The park is home to Soda Lake, which is supposedly an internationally-known area for birds, but the last time I visited it was completely dry. This time I left Bakersfield &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/12\/30\/man-tripping-no-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man Tripping No More&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[59,31,30],"class_list":["post-10533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-carrizo-plain","tag-man-trip","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}