{"id":55,"date":"2009-07-16T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-07-16T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T01:36:13","slug":"11th-stop-death-valley-and-sequoia-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/11th-stop-death-valley-and-sequoia-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"11th stop &#8211; Death Valley and Sequoia National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove all the way from Vegas to Death Valley.<br \/>\nWe stopped to get some gas before we started the VERY LONG drive through Death Valley.<br \/>\nThe billboard on the town stated that this was the last place to fill up before you drove to Area 51.<br \/>\nI checked on the map and sure enough we were spitting distance from Groom Lake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56\" title=\"blog_alien_area51\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blog_alien_area51.JPG\" alt=\"blog_alien_area51\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The drive through Death Valley was VERY LONG and HOTTTER than you could imagine.<br \/>\nKelley made us all get out for the scenic view.<br \/>\nBen stated that he hated all of us and they we were all going to burn up and die.<br \/>\nSeveral of the other people at the stop did not think it was funny.<br \/>\nIt was very funny if you know Ben and his wonderful temperament.<br \/>\nSam &#8211; it was very hot, but not as hot as lightning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" title=\"blog_death_valley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blog_death_valley.JPG\" alt=\"blog_death_valley\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sequoia National Park is amazing.<br \/>\nBen &#8211; these trees are huge and big and fat &#8211; Oh &#8211; my goodness miss golly miss molly<br \/>\nSam &#8211; this is boring and I hate trees &#8211; I just want to climb something<br \/>\nBen &#8211; dear gussy these trees are big &#8211; I cannot even see the top<br \/>\nWow does not describe these trees!<br \/>\nBen &#8211; can you climb uncle Sherman ( it is actually General Sherman! )<br \/>\nGeneral Sherman is perhaps is the biggest thing I have ever seen!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-58\" title=\"blog_big_tree1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blog_big_tree1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"blog_big_tree1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59\" title=\"blog_big_tree2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blog_big_tree2.JPG\" alt=\"blog_big_tree2\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are off to Yosemite tommorrow!<br \/>\nMore redwoods and rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Adios,<br \/>\nThe A-team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove all the way from Vegas to Death Valley. We stopped to get some gas before we started the VERY LONG drive through Death Valley. The billboard on the town stated that this was the last place to fill up before you drove to Area 51. I checked on the map and sure enough &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/11th-stop-death-valley-and-sequoia-national-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">11th stop &#8211; Death Valley and Sequoia National Park<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}