{"id":919,"date":"2017-06-23T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=919"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","slug":"grand-canyon-by-helicopter-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon by Helicopter?! [Part 1]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132810.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132810-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132810-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>My beloved college roommate got married last year, and her bachelorette party involved &#8212;-a helicopter ride to and through the Grand Canyon&#8212;- (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the most visually overwhelming thing I&#8217;ve ever done. It felt so unreal the entire time. I can&#8217;t imagine being a helicopter pilot and seeing it day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>We took off from Las Vegas, and it was 30 minutes one-way.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are passing the Hoover Dam:<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132623.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132623-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_132623-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lake Mead, looking low<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_133727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_133727.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_133727-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_133727-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sooooo much wild landscape!<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-924 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_134450-e1498239125113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_134450-e1498239125113.jpg 1021w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_134450-e1498239125113-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160130_134450-e1498239125113-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up&#8230;Reaching the GC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beloved college roommate got married last year, and her bachelorette party involved &#8212;-a helicopter ride to and through the Grand Canyon&#8212;- (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). It&#8217;s the most visually overwhelming thing I&#8217;ve ever done. It felt so unreal the entire time. I can&#8217;t imagine being a helicopter pilot and seeing it day in and day out. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,6,13,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}