{"id":2767,"date":"2014-01-12T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2014-01-12T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:32:09","slug":"flung-out-of-the-polar-vortex-jan-6-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Flung out of the polar vortex. Jan. 6 – 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know full well, that other people’s travel logs are a big yawn. But hopefully those we left behind in Minnesota might envy us a little. \ud83d\ude0e It was a grueling trip (need a better plan if we do this again). We left on Monday, Jan 6. It was -19 (not wind chill — actual minus 19 degrees on the thermostat). Here is Bob loading the car in the garage the day before.<\/p>\n

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And here is the first stop after we passed the freezing point — somewhere a little north of Wichita a day and a half into the trip.<\/p>\n

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We are happy. I take a deep breath.<\/p>\n

Now we are at the continental divide in Arizona. Texas was a bit shabby and depressed looking but all of New Mexico was breathtaking even from the Interstate and Arizona was lovely too.<\/p>\n

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Overnight in Flagstaff — in the pines. Lovely.<\/p>\n

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Then a short day over the Hoover Dam and into Vegas — found the Desert Rose vacation home in Summerlin easily — very close to two of Bob’s sons and families.<\/p>\n

Here are a few shots for the folks in Minnesota and parts north. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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It is light jacket weather – like spring or fall in Minnesota – 60s all this week.<\/p>\n

Hot tub and palm tree. \"IMG_1101\"<\/p>\n

and the elegant house<\/p>\n

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So — yes our journey was grueling, but I remind myself that it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n

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Photo on the wall in the house…. previous renter perhaps?<\/p>\n

Do come and visit — we are entertaining my side of the family this coming weekend (Todd is playing in a soccer tournament!) and Bob’s whole family — all four children and families will be here on President’s Day weekend — other than that we are open for visits. plenty of room.<\/p>\n

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I know full well, that other people’s travel logs are a big yawn. But hopefully those we left behind in Minnesota might envy us a little. \ud83d\ude0e It was a grueling trip (need a better plan if we do this again). We left on Monday, Jan 6. It was -19 (not wind chill — actual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}