{"id":9775,"date":"2015-04-16T02:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/randr\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:28:41","slug":"new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"N is for New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband&#8217;s birthday fell near the end of the trip. We adjusted the trip dates so we could spend his birthday in New Orleans, a favorite stop of his for many years. Unfortunately, if you&#8217;ve been following the Grand Tour closely, you know this didn&#8217;t happen. Our luggage saw New Orleans, but it isn&#8217;t talking about what it experienced there. Since New Orleans didn&#8217;t work out, I&#8217;d like to share some of the lovely scenery from <strong>New Mexico<\/strong> from the windows of our Southwest Chief bedroom.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11779 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-07.56.10-e1459443954954.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico Mesa\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11780\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-07.56.13-e1459443994709.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico mesa\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11782\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-09.41.42-e1459444064228.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico from the train\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11783\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-09.46.26-e1459444108989.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico vista\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11784\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-09.47.02-e1459444134929.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11785\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-14.10.29-e1459444164458.jpg\" alt=\"mountain tops\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11786\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-14.10.41-e1459444190786.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11787\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-15.46.18-e1459444209239.jpg\" alt=\"sedimentary rock\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you for visiting for the April A-Z Blogging Challenge. Today&#8217;s entry is &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221;-themed, about our Amtrak trip we took last month. I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts or questions in comments. If you don&#8217;t want to miss an entry, please enter your email address below, press sign-up, then check your inbox to click the validation link to get these blog posts in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/forms.aweber.com\/form\/06\/868341806.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband&#8217;s birthday fell near the end of the trip. We adjusted the trip dates so we could spend his birthday in New Orleans, a favorite stop of his for many years. Unfortunately, if you&#8217;ve been following the Grand Tour closely, you know this didn&#8217;t happen. Our luggage saw New <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/new-mexico\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[253,266],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-z-challenge","category-travel","tag-grand-tour-2015","tag-new-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-03-30-09.47.02-e1459444134929.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16322,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/16322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}