{"id":95,"date":"2021-10-03T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waywardhounds-com.preview-domain.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T23:59:17","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"And We&#8217;re off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"viewer-foo\">We left South Dakota on October 1st and started our way south. One of our last activities in Spearfish was a drive up the canyon with Kate&#8217;s mom to see the colors. Lovely trip and we even saw a couple of the mountain goats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_6c0dec727b5347939b7dced28dd69f16~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_389,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_6c0dec727b5347939b7dced28dd69f16~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spearfish Canyon &#8211; the colors were wonderful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_cb48da20954f4f0f99e596e84ad4d699~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_587,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_cb48da20954f4f0f99e596e84ad4d699~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw a couple of the mountain goats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_4cb71f9d60ff476e8b9ff9a3dd71f074~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_876,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_4cb71f9d60ff476e8b9ff9a3dd71f074~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look carefully you can see Spearfish Falls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-bbvcu\">We drove down through Wyoming and were stopped for quite a while at a construction site. The cattle didn&#8217;t care and they didn&#8217;t seem to appreciate the beautiful colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_0879e25a602e45ceb39846cd507cfa31~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_389,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_0879e25a602e45ceb39846cd507cfa31~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_fb8699e744134902ac350e85386d9eda~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_322,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_fb8699e744134902ac350e85386d9eda~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-30u02\">We drove through a wonderful gap in the Rockies in Colorado. No photos but it was really nice. It was following the river bottom. Lots of wildlife and remote farms. Unfortunately we had a little problem. We are driving along and here a really loud BANG &#8211; like a gun going off in the camper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-5dqeg\">Pull to the side of the road and check and sure enough a blown tire. Fortunately we purchased a 10 ton jack this summer so Dave got out all the tools and managed to get the tired changed. We both feel a little more self reliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_60acdf744f524ff39bd07eeb412cf459~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_276,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_60acdf744f524ff39bd07eeb412cf459~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_ba6747e3a81a40bfb763ff0b48f0a6f2~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_276,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_ba6747e3a81a40bfb763ff0b48f0a6f2~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-9g1l6\">We are here in MOAB Utah this evening getting ready to see Arches National Park &amp; Canyonlands National Park along with several other sites. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_2057f75ec9f14c0e891cc652ebc5c882~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_373,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_2057f75ec9f14c0e891cc652ebc5c882~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Daphne and Gracie are getting along very well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left South Dakota on October 1st and started our way south. One of our last activities in Spearfish was a drive up the canyon with Kate&#8217;s mom to see the colors. Lovely trip and we even saw a couple of the mountain goats. Spearfish Canyon &#8211; the colors were wonderful We saw a couple of the mountain goats. If you look carefully you can see Spearfish Falls We drove down through Wyoming and were stopped for quite a while at a construction site. The cattle didn&#8217;t care and they didn&#8217;t seem to appreciate the beautiful colors. We drove through a wonderful gap in the Rockies in Colorado. No photos but it was really nice. It was following the river bottom. Lots of wildlife and remote farms. Unfortunately we had a little problem. We are driving along and here a really loud BANG &#8211; like a gun going off in the camper. Pull to the side of the road and check and sure enough a blown tire. Fortunately we purchased a 10 ton jack this summer so Dave got out all the tools and managed to get the tired changed. We both feel a little more self reliant. We are here in MOAB Utah this evening getting ready to see Arches National Park &amp; Canyonlands National Park along with several other sites. Stay tuned! Daphne and Gracie are getting along very well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}