{"id":1010,"date":"2008-02-04T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2012-02-26T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:15:30","slug":"new-mexico-roadtrip-day-9-monday-feb-4th-canyon-de-chelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Roadtrip Day 9: Mon Feb 4th: Canyon de Chelly-Route66-Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning big surprise: It had snowed the whole night and 8 inch of snow covered the road.\u00a0\u00a0Before the Jeep tour I wanted to see Spyder rock from the south Rim drive. After breakfast, I drove with the rental car along the snow covered South Rim drive 14 miles to the end: Spyder Rock overlook.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View to Spyder Rock. The drive along the South Rim was very scaring for me. Road was uncleared from Snow and\u00a0 I twice nearly lost the rental car. One time I was stuck in the snow, but I suceeded in freeing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderRental Car at Spyder Rock overloook: I couldn&#8217;t enjoy the view to Spyder Rock. I was so scared not to make it\u00a0 back the 14 miles to he main road on the uncleared South Rim road. After this experience and seeing that it was still snowing I cancelled the Jeep tour down to the\u00a0 Canyon and decided to drive back immediately to I-40 (70 miles on the snow covered I-191 south.) It took me 2 1\/2 hours with 30mph speed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the drive on I-40 West it snowed heavily until Flagstaff. I was happy when the weather improved\u00a0 the more I drove west.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<br \/>\nThe photo shows Seligman, where I left the I-40 and took the old Route 66.<br \/>\nIn Seligman I filled up\u00a0and took a coffee. Finally blue sky again after passsing Seligman. I had decided meanwhile to drive &#8220;home&#8221; to Las Vegas<br \/>\nthis monday and enyoy three relaxing final days in Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<br \/>\nHackberry Route 66 historic gas stop.<\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=1021\" title=\"New Mexico Roadtrip Day 10-12: Las Vegas-Red Rock Canyon\">New Mexico Roadtrip Day 10-12: Las Vegas-Red Rock Canyon<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=1000\" title=\"New Mexico Roadtrip Day 8: Sun Feb 3rd: Acoma Pueblo-El Moro-Petrified Forest N.P.\">New Mexico Roadtrip Day 8: Sun Feb 3rd: Acoma Pueblo-El Moro-Petrified Forest N.P.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=993\" title=\"New Mexico Roadtrip Day 7: Sat Feb 2nd: Taos-Santa Fe\">New Mexico Roadtrip Day 7: Sat Feb 2nd: Taos-Santa Fe<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=979\" title=\"New Mexico Roadtrip Day 6, Fri Feb 1st: White Sands-VLA-Albuquerque\">New Mexico Roadtrip Day 6, Fri Feb 1st: White Sands-VLA-Albuquerque<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=966\" title=\"New Mexico Roadtrip Day 5, Thur Jan 31st: Carslbad Caverns + El Paso + Juarez\">New Mexico Roadtrip Day 5, Thur Jan 31st: Carslbad Caverns + El Paso + Juarez<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning big surprise: It had snowed the whole night and 8 inch of snow covered the road. Before the Jeep tour I wanted to see Spyder rock from the south Rim drive. After breakfast, I drove with the rental car along the snow covered South Rim drive 14 miles to the end: Spyder [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico-2008","tag-2008-fototrip","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}