{"id":291,"date":"2021-07-25T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/badlands-rv-golden-hour\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T11:45:00","slug":"badlands-rv-golden-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/badlands-rv-golden-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Badlands at Golden Hour. First RV Lesson: Level the Rig."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first serious RV run was Badlands National Park in late spring\u2014wind honest enough to rewrite your hair and your humility. I had read three forums about leveling blocks and still managed to park slightly crooked like a person who failed geometry on purpose. A neighbor from Minnesota walked over without being asked, showed me the bubble, lent me a block, and said welcome to the club.<\/p>\n<p>That sunset turned the buttes the color of a good apricot jam. Biscuit sat in the doorway and judged my backing skills with the serenity of a monk. I thought about Lisbon at twenty-two, eating pasteis on a bench, equally broke and equally rich. Different continent, same lesson: show up, accept help, feed someone when you can.<\/p>\n<p>Badlands is not the park on the poster wall\u2014 which is partly why I love it. Fewer lines, more silence, bighorn sheep acting like they own the place because they do.<\/p>\n<p>If you are new to RV life, go somewhere that forgives beginners. Bring snacks. Introduce yourself to the person next door. The community is the hidden campground amenity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota sky, a learning-curve leveling block, and the moment I stopped waiting for Europe to be my only great trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}