{"id":23827,"date":"2011-08-20T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2016-09-17T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:37:32","slug":"adventure-isnt-that-far-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/adventure-isnt-that-far-away-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Isn&#8217;t That Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quickly approaching my third anniversary of full-time RVing and am, once again, taking stock of the kilometres I&#8217;ve traveled both since I&#8217;ve been RVing and in the years when I was still housebound.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a month-long backpacking tour of <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3454\">Scotland<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3336\">morning in Mexico<\/a>, my travels have been firmly planted in Canada and the U.S. I have a strong desire to see more of the world, of course, but am enchanted by what I have seen right here, on the North American continent. I have seen just about every landscape of the world, from desert to rain forest, mountains to prairies, and every condition of human existence, from the opulent homes of Beverly Hills to the third world living conditions on Canadian native reserves.<\/p>\n<p>This video by my favourite television host, Josh Gates, illustrates my point beautifully:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"400\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/widget.syfy.com\/singleclip\/singleclip_v1.swf?CXNID=1000004.10035NXC&amp;WID=48e10f5e9dbb50aa&amp;clipID=1168618\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/widget.syfy.com\/singleclip\/singleclip_v1.swf?CXNID=1000004.10035NXC&amp;WID=48e10f5e9dbb50aa&amp;clipID=1168618\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great canyons of the American southwest&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/5-grand-canyon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12783 aligncenter\" title=\"5 grand canyon\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/5-grand-canyon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or here to the great northern frontier of Alaska&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"summit of the Chilkoot Pass\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/summit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;adventure is right around the corner. Go and find it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quickly approaching my third anniversary of full-time RVing and am, once again, taking stock of the kilometres I&#8217;ve traveled both since I&#8217;ve been RVing and in the years when I was still housebound. Other than a month-long backpacking tour of Scotland and a morning in Mexico, my travels have been firmly planted in Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}