{"id":250,"date":"2016-10-30T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-10-30T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T14:08:25","slug":"oct-20-votg-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/oct-20-votg-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 20 : VotG still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red dust everywhere.<br \/>\nI moved to the lower circle. I think it\u2019s larger and more off the road too.<br \/>\nI\u2019d like to build a fire pit, but where?<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise in the desert is one of my favorite places<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-251 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?resize=640%2C209\" alt=\"p1000716\" width=\"640\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?w=2592&amp;ssl=1 2592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?resize=300%2C98&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?resize=768%2C251&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?resize=1024%2C335&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?resize=1200%2C393&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000716.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The desert is very prickly and full of defensive weapons.<br \/>\nThe desert doesn&#8217;t care either, and\u00a0can be as deadly as the ocean if you aren&#8217;t careful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-253\" src=\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"p1000725\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?w=4000&amp;ssl=1 4000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.no-destination.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/p1000725.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the exception of taking the dogs on a little walk, I mostly spent the day reading &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Travels-Charley-Search-America-Steinbeck\/dp\/0140053204\">Travels with Charlie<\/a>&#8220;. It was nice to do not much of anything. My two goals for this trip were to get some perspective and to re-learn how to relax. My daily life has a routine that includes a fair amount of spacing out, but not much actual relaxing. In my younger days, I could easily lie in bed and read until hunger forced me out of bed. Then I&#8217;d eat, or bathroom, and go back to my book. Now, I tend to get antsy. I blame the internet. JK! ha! Anyway, being on the road, without connectivity or many &#8220;normal&#8221; conveniences or distractions, makes me have to learn how to interact with this ever-changing day-to-day, and some of that includes &#8216;being in the moment&#8217;, as clich\u00e9 as that phrase is &#8211; it&#8217;s apt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Good night<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000735.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000735.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"p1000735\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red dust everywhere. I moved to the lower circle. I think it\u2019s larger and more off the road too. I\u2019d like to build a fire pit, but where? Sunrise in the desert is one of my favorite places The desert is very prickly and full of defensive weapons. The desert doesn&#8217;t care either, and\u00a0can be as deadly as the ocean if you aren&#8217;t careful. With the exception of taking the dogs on a little walk, I mostly spent the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/oct-20-votg-still\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[62,83],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campering","tag-relaxing","tag-valley-of-the-gods"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87hG1-42","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}