{"id":181,"date":"2003-09-02T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T01:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/big-bend-ross-maxwell-scenic-drive"},"modified":"2019-03-08T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:20:25","slug":"big-bend-ross-maxwell-scenic-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/travel\/big-bend-ross-maxwell-scenic-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bend: Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/BB1.jpg\" \"photo: Big Bend National Park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen you go on holiday with an Englishman, expect rain. At least that&#8217;s what someone should have told me. After driving 466 miles and 7 hours, we arrive at the Chisos Mountains and it rains. What I didn&#8217;t understand before we got there is that the Chisos Mountains are raincatchers; gigantic, volcanic upheavals rising from the floor of an ancient ocean. As low wet clouds drift by, they gather around the mountains, giving them the look of Mt. Doom shrouded in the mist.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nWe plan two hikes for the day, and as it is very misty in the Chisos Basin, we head out into the desert to <a href=\"http:\/\/visitbigbend.com\/whattosee_santaelena.html\">Santa Elena Canyon<\/a>. When we get there, though, the trail is closed because the rain has swollen the river.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/BB2.jpg\" \"photo: Big Bend National Park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEven so, the drive along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbigbend.com\/whattosee_rmsd.html\">Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive<\/a> is, well, scenic and there are a lot of overlooks and stopping off points with info on what we&#8217;re looking at.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/BB3.jpg\" \"photo: Big Bend National Park\" width=\"320\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving and walking in the shadow of Mt. Doom. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/travel\/big-bend-ross-maxwell-scenic-drive\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39,342,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}