{"id":8569,"date":"2020-07-11T19:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:07:57","slug":"road-trip-day-3-neon-morning-beach-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2020\/07\/11\/road-trip-day-3-neon-morning-beach-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Day 3: Neon Morning, Beach Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After awaking amongst the <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/YvJ16tc9aQFRXgus9\">Vegas tree chickens<\/a> &amp; introducing Seamus to our host&#8217;s turkey and peacock, we headed over\u2014at Henry&#8217;s suggestion\u2014to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neonmuseum.org\/\">Museum of Neon<\/a>. It&#8217;s the resting (rusting?) place of all manner of ephemera from the city&#8217;s glittering history, and we were delighted to get a private tour from the extremely knowledgeable (and admirably bearded!) docent Bob. <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/6yczBbmk7rdLwnLz6\">Check out some photos<\/a> from our exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/6yczBbmk7rdLwnLz6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yucca-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yucca-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yucca-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yucca.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After wrapping up at the museum, we drove (and drove!) until we finally arrived upon the shores of Lake Powell, where we alighted at the Wahweap campground and set up shop for the night. The sunset was spectacular, as <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Zo92gMUZQ5yuBaARA\">you can see in our photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Zo92gMUZQ5yuBaARA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shores-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8583\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shores-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shores-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shores-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shores.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Zo92gMUZQ5yuBaARA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Lake-Powell-Sunset-1024x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Lake-Powell-Sunset-1024x327.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Lake-Powell-Sunset-300x96.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Lake-Powell-Sunset-768x245.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Lake-Powell-Sunset.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning I used my drone to capture an interactive 360\u00ba panorama on which you can tap\/click and drag to see more. (Hello down there, Westy!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1594522482896!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSK0FGMVFpcE1PbWljQmdJMkFraUFSUlA1VldXRVZiQXZVQlVvZTVqeDJ4NTA.!2m2!1d36.997326!2d-111.4990853!3f0!4f0!5f0.7820865974627469\" width=\"530\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After awaking amongst the Vegas tree chickens &amp; introducing Seamus to our host&#8217;s turkey and peacock, we headed over\u2014at Henry&#8217;s suggestion\u2014to the Museum of Neon. It&#8217;s the resting (rusting?) place of all manner of ephemera from the city&#8217;s glittering history, and we were delighted to get a private tour from the extremely knowledgeable (and admirably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-2020","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}