{"id":2564,"date":"2012-08-14T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:41:23","slug":"great-sand-dunes-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/travel\/great-sand-dunes-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Sand Dunes National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drove about three hours south to the high desert of the San Luis Valley in order to see the Great Sand Dunes. They are much larger than any of these photos convey. Even standing on them you have no sense of how big they are because there&#8217;s no features to provide scale. You look up and think ti won&#8217;t take long to get to the top and then you trudge and trudge and don&#8217;t seem to be making any progress at all. Although it wasn&#8217;t hot, we made it only about two-thirds of the way to the top. Still very thin air. We did have a fun running down. It&#8217;s like being at the beach without the ocean.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grsa\/index.htm<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9KP8ErjltE0\/UCukngOJt-I\/AAAAAAAADpM\/9cwWGXNKRrI\/w848-h636-n\/IMG_7125g.JPG\" alt=\"photo: Great Sand Dunes\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-uRtGfPfeDKc\/UCujyAbnm7I\/AAAAAAAADo0\/00ysqqvvUYw\/w848-h636-n\/IMG_7106g.JPG\" alt=\"photo: Great Sand Dunes\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-klKGCpfdhdo\/UCuj5b-yxAI\/AAAAAAAADo8\/cssyWVVlFvk\/w848-h636-n\/IMG_7110g.JPG\" alt=\"photo: Great Sand Dunes\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-fUak7NdfYQc\/UCukC2AzUdI\/AAAAAAAADpE\/DGUk93Mwa4w\/w848-h636-n\/IMG_7114g.JPG\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9nXP6Cc9Gjg\/UCukyDykWqI\/AAAAAAAADpU\/7S4n5bHfCqM\/w848-h636-n\/IMG_7117g.JPG\" alt=\"photo: Great Sand Dunes\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\nAug 17, 2012 Michael O'Reilly\n+2\nWe have a picture of our son rolling down one of those dunes, +M Sinclair Stevens. It's really amazing the variety of landscape you can find traveling the country.\nREPLY\n\ue800\nAug 17, 2012\ue5d4\nnomad dimitri's profile photo\nnomad dimitri\n+2\n+M Sinclair Stevens one of the great pleasures of life (rolling down dunes).  there is a lovely stretch off pacific hwy 1 in california between monterey & big sur.  i always end up rolling into the ice plant bed at the foot of the dunes...\nREPLY\n\ue800\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-delirium-blogthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9nXP6Cc9Gjg\/UCukyDykWqI\/AAAAAAAADpU\/7S4n5bHfCqM\/w848-h636-n\/IMG_7117g.JPG\" alt=\"photo: Great Sand Dunes\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/travel\/great-sand-dunes-national-park\/\">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":[333,343,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"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=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}