{"id":2539,"date":"2019-10-11T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2019-10-11T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T00:46:08","slug":"life-in-death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"Life in Death Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The expected storm did come through, but not as bad as was forecast.  I got dusted, but just a bit.  Tomorrow I go &#8220;topside&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve observed there are about 5 times as many rental RVs as owned units here.  That portends a lot of Euro and Asian tourists in the Southwest parks this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The park doesn&#8217;t officially start operating until next week.  Meanwhile there are limited human resources, notably park rangers.  I haven&#8217;t seen a single one since I&#8217;ve been here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From here I&#8217;ll head up to Death Valley Junction, the easy way out of this hole.  Turn south and head for Baker at I-15 looking for a crappy truck stop to park in for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expected storm did come through, but not as bad as was forecast. I got dusted, but just a bit. Tomorrow I go &#8220;topside&#8221;. I&#8217;ve observed there are about 5 times as many rental RVs as owned units here. That portends a lot of Euro and Asian tourists in the Southwest parks this year. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}