{"id":310,"date":"2023-06-26T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/going-to-the-sun-road-slow-travel\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:15:00","slug":"going-to-the-sun-road-slow-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/going-to-the-sun-road-slow-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Going-to-the-Sun Road. Slow Is the Itinerary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glacier was on my list for twenty years. We went in July with the RV\u2014check length restrictions, darling, or learn them the hard way like I almost did. Going-to-the-Sun Road is not a highway; it is a poem written in switchbacks. We took it slow, stopped at every legal overlook, made sandwiches like we were on a European train with better scenery and worse legroom in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about Austria by rail in the nineties, fields sliding past a window. Same appetite for slow travel, different vehicle. Biscuit napped. I drove. My wife navigated and occasionally prayed with humor.<\/p>\n<p>We saw mountain goats posing like they knew Instagram was coming. We drank bad campground coffee that tasted excellent because altitude and triumph pair well.<\/p>\n<p>Book early. Read vehicle limits. Give yourself two days minimum. Hurry is for airports, not glaciers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glacier National Park, an RV too big for some pullouts, and views worth every white-knuckle mile.<\/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-310","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\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}