{"id":3,"date":"2006-12-09T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2019-09-05T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:58:26","slug":"national-park-hiking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/national-park-hiking-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"National Park Hiking Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago over Thanksgiving I had the pleasure of going on a 6 day hiking tour through some of the most beautiful national parks the USA has to offer. The tour was organized by <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Aztec Adventures\" href=\"http:\/\/aztecadventures.sdsu.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aztec Adventures<\/a> and we were a group of 9 people from all over the world. There was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noel Llopis<\/a>, a coworker originally from Spain, someone from Italy, Taiwan, California, and of course me from Austria. The parks we visited in order were: Joshua Tree, Zion, Cedar Breaks, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon. We spent Thanksgiving in a town called Kanab at a nice mom-and-pop-type restaurant called Grandmother Tina&#8217;s (and yes, there really was a Tina there :))<\/p>\n<p>Since the others took so many pictures, and because the batteries of my camera died after I had taken two pictures, I didn&#8217;t really take any pictures. But do not fret, there are many pictures available online already, so I don&#8217;t have to go through the trouble of putting them up. So please feel free to browse the following picture galleries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/joshua_tree\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/joshua_tree\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/zion\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/zion\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/cedar_break\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/cedar_break\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/bryce_canyon\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/bryce_canyon\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/north_rim_kaibab\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/north_rim_kaibab\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/north_rim_main\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/north_rim_main\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/south_rim\/\">http:\/\/www.convexhull.com\/photos\/national_parks\/south_rim\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/flynn.adams\">http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/flynn.adams<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago over Thanksgiving I had the pleasure of going on a 6 day hiking tour through some of the most beautiful national parks the USA has to offer. 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