{"id":39908,"date":"2020-08-25T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/39908"},"modified":"2020-08-25T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:41:54","slug":"epic-western-adventure-day-3-08-17-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/39908","title":{"rendered":"Epic Western Adventure Day 3, 08\/17\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let me get this out of the way right off about Zion National Park: Zion is pretty, Zion has some amazing hikes, Zion has some of the most interesting highway tunnels I have ever seen. But, in mid-August Zion is hot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I mean hot, real hot. 108\u00b0 degrees hot. Even in a freakin\u2019 desert, dry as a bone, way too hot, hot. We\u2019re human beings ever really meant to survive in this heat, hot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, babes and I did not deal well with the heat. Jodi did not have as much issues, but even she was willing to admit, it was freakin\u2019 hot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like a Costco hotdog.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>The kid, after a hike, when asked how she was doing. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But, we did see some sheep and had a really, honestly, nice hike, but too hot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mask wearing was also low, sub-70% I would say. Which really pissed Jodi off. The kid and I were too hot to care much. Did I mention it was hot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then we drove on to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let me get this out of the way right off about Zion National Park: Zion is pretty, Zion has some amazing hikes, Zion has some of the most interesting highway tunnels I have ever seen. But, in mid-August Zion is hot. No, I mean hot, real hot. 108\u00b0 degrees hot. Even in a freakin\u2019 desert, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[573],"tags":[572],"class_list":["post-39908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-epicwesternandventure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/img_1422-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AdCf-anG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39890,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/39890","url_meta":{"origin":39908,"position":0},"title":"Epic Western Trip, Day 2 (08\/16 Sunday)","author":"Admin","date":"2020.08.20 at 11:17 AM","format":false,"excerpt":"After a less than perfect sleep for me (spoilers, it would take me a couple more nights to sort out how to stuff myself into the bed in some semblance of comfort), we headed out into Bryce Canyon. 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