{"id":589,"date":"2009-06-09T18:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T00:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-01-29T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:47:55","slug":"nothing-to-do-in-juneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/589","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to do in Juneau???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Mendenhall Glacier 1\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3336\/3603942317_2b8ee3a4a5_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3336\/3603942317_2b8ee3a4a5_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mendenhall Glacier 1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> OK &#8211; I confess I was doubtful about what we&#8217;d do here &#8211; especially since we had to move up our departure from Sitka by 2 days. Boy was I wrong! Once we got the RV set up, we took off for Mendenhall Glacier, which is only 15 minutes away. Check out the nifty pictures we took at <a href=\"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/flickrphotos\/album\/72157619312167095\/2009-06-05.html\" target=\"_self\">Mendenhall National Park<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"The sign said, \" href=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2456\/3603948747_fc4c020b58_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2456\/3603948747_fc4c020b58_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The sign said, \" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> In addition to main viewing areas, there are many trails to explore. We took one labeled\u00a0 &#8220;Not Developed&#8221; that was listed as a 45 minute hike to the edge of the Nutmeg falls and as close as you could get to the glacier. In the last 100 yards, we suddenly were climbing rocks from a recent avalanche to get to the falls!<\/p>\n<p>We had watched a movie about the glacier and Dave wanted to share all the information he learned with our friends&#8230;[flickr video=3611560841]<\/p>\n<p>We got home in time, to hear about a free big band concert downtown at the marina park and off we went for a 2 hour hour concert. Great music, warm, sunny evening against a mountain backdrop!<a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Great view, too!\" href=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2468\/3603954109_31e6432790_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2468\/3603954109_31e6432790_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Great view, too!\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; I confess I was doubtful about what we&#8217;d do here &#8211; especially since we had to move up our departure from Sitka by 2 days. Boy was I wrong! Once we got the RV set up, we took off for Mendenhall Glacier, which is only 15 minutes away. Check out the nifty pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}