{"id":16,"date":"2006-07-17T19:52:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T02:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/trip-to-the-black-hills\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T18:53:14","slug":"trip-to-the-black-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/trip-to-the-black-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to the Black Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our summer vacation, Yaa and I spent five days in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Hills\">Black Hills<\/a> for a family reunion. This was Yaa&#8217;s first time ever in that part of the country, and my first time in the last <em>fifteen years<\/em>, so it was quite an experience for both of us. Most of our time was spent in a fantastic two-story cabin in the middle of the woods that my parents had recently purchased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000969.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000969.JPG','popup','width=3072,height=1728,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000969-tm.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"The cabin in the Black Hills\" title=\"The cabin in the Black Hills\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153base camp,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we journeyed to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Rushmore\">Mount Rushmore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crazy_Horse_Memorial\">Crazy Horse<\/a>, and a number of tourist traps in Hill City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000938.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000938.JPG','popup','width=1728,height=3072,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000938-tm.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"225\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Mount Rushmore\" title=\"Mount Rushmore\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent one of our days at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvan_Lake%2C_South_Dakota\">Sylvan Lake<\/a>, where we hiked and rented a couple of paddleboats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000870.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000870.JPG','popup','width=3072,height=1728,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000870-tm.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Sylvan Lake\" title=\"Sylvan Lake\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later, I climbed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harney_Peak\">Harney Peak<\/a>, where I saw a mountain goat, a rainbow, and the old lookout tower that was used decades ago to watch for forest fires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000923.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000923.JPG','popup','width=3072,height=1728,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000923-tm.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Mountain goat\" title=\"Mountain goat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And before the trip was over, Yaa had made a new friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000801.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000801.JPG','popup','width=1728,height=3072,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/P1000801-tm.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"225\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Yaa and cat\" title=\"Yaa and cat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our summer vacation, Yaa and I spent five days in the Black Hills for a family reunion. This was Yaa&#8217;s first time ever in that part of the country, and my first time in the last fifteen years, so it was quite an experience for both of us. Most of our time was spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}