{"id":1949,"date":"2019-12-22T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2019-12-22T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T13:45:18","slug":"santiago-to-mendoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/12\/22\/santiago-to-mendoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago to Mendoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1950\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_230835_003-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_230835_003-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_230835_003-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_230835_003-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_230835_003-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_230835_003.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Howard and I enjoyed some street time in downtown Mendoza after my night in Santiago. And I must say that after being in Chile I really appreciate Argentina. Mendoza has a very relaxed and modern feel.<\/p>\n<p>Today we met our guide and did a gear check. I managed to get some laps in at the swimming pool at our hotel, the Intercontinental. Today we&#8217;re preparing to switch to our other hotel and then begin the expedition tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1951\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_203213976-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_203213976-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_203213976-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_203213976-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_203213976-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191221_203213976.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are cruising the streets looking for Nazi refugees. Howard&#8217;s new trail name is Colonel Taylor, hero of the Falklands. For some reason our Argentinian friends may not appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>So all is well here in the middle of summer on the longest day of the year 2019.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay tuned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard and I enjoyed some street time in downtown Mendoza after my night in Santiago. And I must say that after being in Chile I really appreciate Argentina. Mendoza has a very relaxed and modern feel. Today we met our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/12\/22\/santiago-to-mendoza\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}