{"id":12060,"date":"2017-10-28T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2017-10-27T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:51:30","slug":"returning-to-point-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/returning-to-point-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Point Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerri has a spot. A spot that she must return too when within a days drive. A place that not only causes her to break out in smiles, but for those smiles to continue infecting her the entire time she remains. The Marin coastline &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pore\/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore<\/a> to be specific &#8211; is that place for her. We made sure to set a week aside to come here before arriving at either of the Family&#8217;s places, since it has been nearly one full year since Kerri got to see the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>We dove straight into the ocean-activities. Not surfing or diving or anything like that, but oyster shucking, pastry devouring, dining, sea-lion watching,\u00a0 and sunsetting (not really a word).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12060 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2270.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2270-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2270-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2270-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2270.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-10-35-24-AM.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-10-35-24-AM-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-10-35-24-AM-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-10-35-24-AM-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-10-35-24-AM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Baskn2iDD3T\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Kerri McHale\ud83c\udf32\ud83c\udf35\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd (@asolojourner)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-10-26T03:39:05+00:00\">Oct 25, 2017 at 8:39pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Baskn2iDD3T\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Kerri McHale\ud83c\udf32\ud83c\udf35\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd (@asolojourner)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-10-26T03:39:05+00:00\">Oct 25, 2017 at 8:39pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But alas, we did get some physical activity in; a short 2 mile hike (hey! you hike two miles in the sand, it is hard!) in Point Reyes to an old abandoned farm where I day dreamed of being lost at sea and stumbling onto the farm. I&#8217;d have been happy here, if only I cared to eat seafood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-22-55-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-22-55-PM-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-22-55-PM-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-22-55-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-22-55-PM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-51-36-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-51-36-PM-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-51-36-PM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-51-36-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-51-36-PM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-59-54-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-59-54-PM-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-59-54-PM-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-59-54-PM-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo-Oct-23-12-59-54-PM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2276-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2276-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2276-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2276.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerri has a spot. A spot that she must return too when within a days drive. A place that not only causes her to break out in smiles, but for those smiles to continue infecting her the entire time she remains. The Marin coastline &#8211; Point Reyes National Seashore to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,70,34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california-by-state","category-ghost-town","category-hike","category-national-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2276.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9livM-38w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}