{"id":212,"date":"2012-07-29T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2013-08-10T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:36:11","slug":"day-16-bryce-canyon-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Day 16: Bryce Canyon, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_0452\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0452.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so interesting that neighboring canyons and national parks can exhibit completely different geologic formations. Bryce Canyon was beautiful, and was much smaller than Zion, so we were able to visit all thirteen vista points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0538.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_0538\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0538.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_0548\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0548.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had lunch at the Valhalla Pizzeria in the middle of the park, which had a world map tacked on the wall bearing the legend, \u201cTell Us Where You Live!\u201d There were pushpins all over the map, mostly from the USA and Europe, but there were plenty from other places as well, including Australia, Russia, China, and (interestingly) Easter Island. Caroline took the Easter Island pin and used it to mark Albany\u2014she doesn\u2019t believe that anyone lives there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_0599\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0599.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was raining by the time we finished lunch, but we ended up hiking the Queen\u2019s Garden route anyway. We didn\u2019t get to finish the trail (Ben was complaining about the cold), which was probably for the best, because the combination of the rain, the elevation, and the trail\u2019s steep grade was pretty brutal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0788.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_0788\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0788.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so interesting that neighboring canyons and national parks can exhibit completely different geologic formations. Bryce Canyon was beautiful, and was much smaller than Zion, so we were able to visit all thirteen vista points. We had lunch at the Valhalla Pizzeria in the middle of the park, which had a world map tacked on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}