{"id":252,"date":"2016-01-27T17:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=252"},"modified":"2016-03-06T01:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T01:46:37","slug":"fort-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/01\/27\/fort-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the morning and early afternoon \u00a0doing school and work we headed over to Fort Davis National Park. \u00a0The location was really nice as its set back in some Texan mountains (or, Colorado hills). \u00a0The kids got their Jr Ranger books and we explored. \u00a0Its a really well done park with great displays and a cool history. \u00a0Our favorite part was the hospital and seeing all of the really crazy\u00a0tools the doctors used like the esophagus dilator \u00a0(a long stick which they could put increasing larger diameter doo dads on and stick down your throat). \u00a0Brielle liked the horse drawn ambulance. \u00a0They also had different bugle calls every 10-15 minutes and they gave us a cheat sheet to know what they meant. \u00a0It sounded really cool as it echoed off the rocky bluffs and brought the otherwise deserted grounds to life. \u00a0The kids took their Jr Ranger oath and received their patches. \u00a0But we forgot their National Parks Passports back at the trailer&#8230;.DOH! \u00a0Its just a few miles from our campground so we&#8217;ll swing by another day to get stamps.<\/p>\n<div id=\"flickr_fortdavisnationalpark_388\"><div class=\"slickr-flickr-slideshow landscape medium \"><div class=\"active\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1487\/24659665905_a95f51500b.jpg\" title=\"P1060894\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>P1060894<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1694\/24659684105_ebcdea87d5.jpg\" title=\"P1060893\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>P1060893<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1704\/24633401906_45a945e9de.jpg\" title=\"P1060898\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>P1060898<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1490\/24659454795_133f43c40e.jpg\" title=\"Dacen as a soldier\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Dacen as a soldier<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1552\/24364052920_33d9f30bd9.jpg\" title=\"P1060899\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>P1060899<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1676\/24633257746_9958bf627d.jpg\" title=\"What are big brothers for?\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>What are big brothers for?<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1607\/24364000800_cc7dbf7673.jpg\" title=\"Outside the commissary\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Outside the commissary<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1469\/24364037950_cfb80f5bd5.jpg\" title=\"The original RV\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>The original RV<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1443\/24291796379_5ac6bb3670.jpg\" title=\"Brielle by the old chapel\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Brielle by the old chapel<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1514\/24363985530_3559690c7f.jpg\" title=\"Fort Davis panorama\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Fort Davis panorama<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1493\/24291770479_13aae20877.jpg\" title=\"Sibs in a swing\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Sibs in a swing<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1681\/24291756619_ef68f97bcc.jpg\" title=\"Another Jr Ranger badge\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Another Jr Ranger badge<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1657\/24032755553_7ae13c821d.jpg\" title=\"Outside the commissary\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Outside the commissary<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1625\/24031503474_7ef2a58ea7.jpg\" title=\"P1060897\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>P1060897<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1550\/24031366224_0972787884.jpg\" title=\"Exploring Fort Davis parade grounds\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Exploring Fort Davis parade grounds<\/p><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(\"#flickr_fortdavisnationalpark_388\").data(\"options\",{\"delay\":3000,\"autoplay\":true,\"transition\":500,\"link\":\"next\",\"target\":\"_self\",\"width\":\"\",\"height\":\"\"});<\/script><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the morning and early afternoon \u00a0doing school and work we headed over to Fort Davis National Park. \u00a0The location was really nice as its set back in some Texan mountains (or, Colorado hills). \u00a0The kids got their Jr Ranger books and we explored. \u00a0Its a really well done park with great displays and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}