{"id":719,"date":"2009-01-12T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2009-01-12T20:35:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T04:35:43","slug":"jan-11-ruinas-xpujil-and-becan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/jan-11-ruinas-xpujil-and-becan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 11 &#8211; Ruinas Xpujil and Becan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we stayed in Xpujil and toured a pair of local archeological sites.\u00a0 We had too much fuel on-board for me to remove my fuel control to attempt to fix the reserve issue.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel we stayed at for two days had a beautiful pair of tucans in a cage, and did they ever make a racket in the morning!<\/p>\n<p>We got a taste of what the Yucatan is like, while driving to the remote ruin sites.\u00a0 Very dense, dry jungle, all growing to 30 feet in height or less.\u00a0 Flat and all thin-soil over limestone.<\/p>\n<p>We did some reading up on Belize and Guatemala.\u00a0 Some scary stories out there!<\/p>\n<p>It is proving to be a real bitch trying to add pictures to these posts, when the connections are so poor.\u00a0 I will try to re-edit these posts and add the picts. when we have a faster internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>The ruins we saw today were not on ethe scale of palenque, but were very impressive and amazing.\u00a0 they were new to me, and we both enjoyed the walking and climbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we stayed in Xpujil and toured a pair of local archeological sites.\u00a0 We had too much fuel on-board for me to remove my fuel control to attempt to fix the reserve issue. The hotel we stayed at for two days had a beautiful pair of tucans in a cage, and did they ever make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[6,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}