{"id":9687,"date":"2022-08-04T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:03:51","slug":"all-aboard-the-rocky-moutaineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2022\/08\/04\/all-aboard-the-rocky-moutaineer\/","title":{"rendered":"All aboard the Rocky Mountaineer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Following our great morning in Arches, the big show finally arrived: we boarded the Rocky Mountaineer<\/a> train in Moab! The train itself (about which Henry could of course provide excessive<\/em> amounts of detail 😛) was really lovely (clean, spacious, featuring overhead windows), as were all the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hen of course did his Hen thing, charming the crew by sharing his love of railroad minutiae & insulators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ends of the train cars featured neat covered vestibules that let us get some fresh air while shooting photos. I’ll always be grateful that Henry’s quick thinking (and keen observation of telephone poles suddenly disappearing) alerted me to an oncoming tunnel, thereby saving me from smashing Adobe’s new 360\u00ba camera into a wall! Here’s the slightly scary footage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a quick overnight in beautiful Glenwood Springs<\/a>, we arose for Day 2, kicking things off with Henry meeting the train crew & getting their printout of the previous day’s operating instructions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honestly it couldn’t have been more perfect, and if you’re ever tempted to make the trip, consider it highly recommended!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were of course a bit sad that the journey, like all good things, had to come to an end, but it was great to roll into Denver & reunite with Margot and Finn for a great 50th anniversary celebration dinner with my folks. More on that next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Check out our photo gallery] Following our great morning in Arches, the big show finally arrived: we boarded the Rocky Mountaineer train in Moab! The train itself (about which Henry could of course provide excessive amounts of detail 😛) was really lovely (clean, spacious, featuring overhead windows), as were all the staff. Hen of course […]<\/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":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-summer-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","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=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}