{"id":1692,"date":"2010-06-22T19:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T05:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2010-06-23T06:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:54:43","slug":"mount-tam-hiking-with-jay-and-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Mount Tam, Hiking with Jay and Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning light was really pretty<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-campsite.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Leilani&#8217;s minigarden:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-minigarden.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Andy gave me a new filter to play with&#8230; but I think I&#8217;ll do special effects in photoshop and not while photographing<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-new-filter.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lily and Jay came to visit:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-lily.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jay showed Leilani his new camera. Leilani claims it didn&#8217;t work and they had to exchange it. Maybe that was a trick to make us give her a real camera not a kid&#8217;s camera (we have since given her the old camera, now that Sonja has new one).<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-jay.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We hikded down the Coastal Fire Road from the Pantoll Campground, with great views of the Marin Headlands and San Francisco. We stopped on a rock to each lunch:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-la-us.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-l-jay.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then we headed into the forest to connect to the Stapelveldt trail that goes by some redwoods in a corner of the Muir Woods National Monument:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-all.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-al.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-big-trees.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-mt-sl.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was a long climb back up to Pantoll, but we ended up right next to our tent. We finished packing and then drove to Stinson Beach for some playtime. Leilani made a new friend, and played until all her clothes were wet.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/2\/web\/100502-pr-mudpuddle.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And before driving home, we had a nice dinner at the Sand Dollar Restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning light was really pretty Leilani&#8217;s minigarden: Andy gave me a new filter to play with&#8230; but I think I&#8217;ll do special effects in photoshop and not while photographing Lily and Jay came to visit: Jay showed Leilani his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}