{"id":38858,"date":"2019-09-15T00:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T00:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38858"},"modified":"2019-09-15T00:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T00:35:54","slug":"happy-trails-part-168-oh-such-splendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38858","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 168: Oh, such splendor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RVtravel%20%23retirement%20%23TobythePuppy%20%23CanadianRockies&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mountains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38859\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mountains-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mountains-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mountains.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>GOLDEN, British Columbia<\/strong> &#8212; This photograph proves something I&#8217;ve known more or less by instinct over many years.<\/p>\n<p>You do not need sunshine to reveal Mother Nature&#8217;s splendor when it is laid out before you.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Golden, British Columbia. We parked our fifth wheel at an RV park. We unhooked the RV from the pickup. We grabbed a bit of dinner. We returned and my wife took Toby the Puppy for a short walk.<\/p>\n<p>She returned to the RV and said, &#8220;You have to see this.&#8221; So, we did.<\/p>\n<p>We walked about 200 yards to a bench and we cast our eyes on the Rocky Mountain range just east of us. Alberta sits on the other side of that splendorous view. We&#8217;ll be there soon.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the grandeur my wife and I expected to find once we hit the road in our RV. We&#8217;ve seen plenty of it already in the United States of America. From coast to coast we&#8217;ve soaked in all that Mother Nature has to offer. I won&#8217;t belabor the point by listing all those magnificent sights we&#8217;ve seen; I surely will miss a few. You get the point.<\/p>\n<p>Our trip across much of Canada has been equally jaw-dropping, as the sight of those majestic mountains will attest.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not entirely certain what the road ahead will reveal to us. Hey, there is no need on Earth to predict such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, I am positive it will give us unimagined thrills.<\/p>\n<p>The open road awaits.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RVtravel%20%23retirement%20%23TobythePuppy%20%23CanadianRockies&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLDEN, British Columbia &#8212; This photograph proves something I&#8217;ve known more or less by instinct over many years. You do not need sunshine to reveal Mother Nature&#8217;s splendor when it is laid out before you. We arrived in Golden, British Columbia. We parked our fifth wheel at an RV park. We unhooked the RV from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 168: Oh, such splendor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3920,5551,5509,6016],"class_list":["post-38858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-retirement","tag-rocky-mountains","tag-rv-travel","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38860,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38858\/revisions\/38860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}