{"id":4555,"date":"2021-11-20T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2022-01-01T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T22:47:21","slug":"monument-valley-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2021\/11\/20\/monument-valley-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument Valley Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Covid-19, Japan has closed their border and does not allow any travelers to get in their country, which means our trip to Japan is cancelled.\u00a0 The Stunning Tours company gave us the option to postpone the trip to next year (Nov 2022) or to take the credit; we chose to postpone to next year.\u00a0 \u00a0This meant that we had a full week of vacation with no where to go so we decided to take the road trip to see the Monument Valley, a place where the famous movie was film: The Forest Gump.\u00a0 This would be our longest road trip ever with the driving of 8.5 hours on the first day to reach to the first destination and the total trip days was 6 days.\u00a0 Before this trip, we only arranged the trip to drive max of 6 hrs a day and 4 days in total.\u00a0 This was also the first time that we missed Thanksgiving dinner with our family.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 11\/20\/2021: Drive to Page, stop at Las Vegas for lunch and break.\u00a0 \u00a0Stay at Home2Suite hotel in Page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was traffic after we left Las Vegas that it took us 6 hours to get to Page.\u00a0 By the time we got there, it was so late.\u00a0 Fortunately Hilton hotel allows us to digitally check in so we went straight to our room upon arrival.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday 11\/21\/2021: explore Page, stay 2nd night at Page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horseshoe Bend, Upper Antelope Canyon tour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monday 11\/22\/2021: drive to Monument Valley from Page (2 hrs)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First stop was View Hotel, took a quick drive on the scene drive, then Sunset tour of the back country.<\/li>\n<li>Check in a Goulding Hotel around 5:30 PM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday 11\/23\/2021: Forest Gump Point, Mexican Hat, Valley of the Gods.\u00a0 Drive back to Page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was raining and cold this day but we got a good shot at the Forest Gump Point.<\/li>\n<li>Stay at Home2Suite hotel in Page for 1 night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wednesday 11\/24\/2021:\u00a0 Zion National Park, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the way back to Las Vegas, we stopped by Zion Park.\u00a0 \u00a0Did not know it still had beautiful yellow leaves so we stayed here longer than we planned.<\/li>\n<li>Arrive to Las Vegas and check in to Hilton at Resort World, a brand new hotel just opened this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thursday 11\/25\/2021: Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spent our Thanksgiving at Las Vegas.\u00a0 Explore the hotel Resort World.\u00a0 William loved to swim at the hotel pool until they closed at 5:00 PM.<\/li>\n<li>Walk to Paris Hotel to see the Effeil tower lit at up night; and Bellagio to watch the dancing water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday 11\/26\/2021: Go home<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the hotel and go home, there was no traffic at all so we got home early around 4:00 PM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Covid-19, Japan has closed their border and does not allow any travelers to get in their country, which means our trip to Japan is cancelled.\u00a0 The Stunning Tours company gave us the option to postpone the trip to next year (Nov 2022) or to take the credit; we chose to postpone to next <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2021\/11\/20\/monument-valley-trip\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[425,430,424,22,116,369,117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}