{"id":275,"date":"2003-11-14T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/11\/14\/glendale-california-56\/"},"modified":"2003-11-14T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T21:45:00","slug":"glendale-california-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/11\/14\/glendale-california-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendale, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing to an old friend from work today about places in the world that I still want to visit.  While trying to remember how to spell &#8220;Lechuguilla&#8221; Caverns I stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deep-secrets.com\/html\/photos_from_lechuguilla_cave.html\">this page<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/bstorage.com\/wksphoto\/caves2\/Lech\/Lech.htm\">this one<\/a>) which has some absolutely amazing photos.  Lechuguilla is high on the list of places to visit before I die, but it&#8217;s also very difficult to get access to.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the other places on my list (since people ask <i>a lot<\/i>) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia and New Zealand &#8211; This one will be a trip that lasts several months some day, but I&#8217;m waiting to first meet exactly the right travel partner.<\/li>\n<li>The Himalayas &#8211; The dream is to spend a few months trekking in Nepal, Pakistan, and\/or Tibet with just a backpack and a camera.<\/li>\n<li>Pribiloff Islands, Alaska &#8211; If you&#8217;ve ever seen a picture of a puffin or a walrus, there&#8217;s a good chance it was taken here.<\/li>\n<li>Polar Bear National Park, Manitoba &#8211; I need to do some research to find out if there&#8217;s a lesser known place in which polar bears can be seen, otherwise Manitoba will be the spot to visit.<\/li>\n<li>McNeill River Sanctuary, Alaska &#8211; Highest concentration of grizzly bears in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Turkey &#8211; A girl I met on a train in Greece in 1998 put this one on the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are hundreds of others; throw a dart at a map and you&#8217;ll hit something interesting.  Easter Island, Machu Picchu, Siberia, Africa, the Great Wall of China, and so many others.  Plus, there&#8217;s no doubt that I&#8217;ll return to the Galapagos, Alaska, and Europe.  One lifetime isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing to an old friend from work today about places in the world that I still want to visit. While trying to remember how to spell &#8220;Lechuguilla&#8221; Caverns I stumbled on this page (and this one) which has some absolutely amazing photos. Lechuguilla is high on the list of places to visit before &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/11\/14\/glendale-california-56\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glendale, California&#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":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}