{"id":509,"date":"2010-05-31T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-09-08T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:45:25","slug":"hanging-at-casa-del-vikingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Hanging at Casa del Vikingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrap up my ride through the Sonoran desert in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mazatl%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\">Mazatlan<\/a> where Glen, aka the Strikingviking, rolls out the welcome mat and gives me a whirlwind tour of the city. Historic colonial architecture, markets, sandy beaches, nightlife, Maz boasts a thriving tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-TZ2gqQL\/0\/L\/i-TZ2gqQL-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-qtgZjsX\/0\/L\/i-qtgZjsX-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-cxLK2bm\/0\/L\/i-cxLK2bm-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-GRwTPvv\/0\/L\/i-GRwTPvv-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-q3DPrg2\/0\/L\/i-q3DPrg2-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-Fg3tDzn\/0\/L\/i-Fg3tDzn-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-FDB7tPK\/0\/L\/i-FDB7tPK-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We spend the days hitting some of Glen&#8217;s favorite eating establishments and discussing my travel plans. Glen arms me with a list of common Spanish verbs to aid in my immersion and we work on my conversation skills. I struggle with the new words as I try to piece together basic sentences but I&#8217;m optimistic as I begin my journey into a new language. My stay in Mazatlan is a great way to kick off my Latin American travel and I&#8217;m thankful to Glen for his hospitality. Gracias, amigo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-q4cGNw7\/0\/L\/i-q4cGNw7-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-xHRHL7m\/0\/L\/i-xHRHL7m-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-Kcx9Dbv\/0\/L\/i-Kcx9Dbv-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-G6Nd3S3\/0\/L\/i-G6Nd3S3-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up I ride the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousroads.org\/north-america\/mexico\/63-espinazo-del-diablo-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\">Devil&#8217;s Backbone<\/a> to Durango.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrap up my ride through the Sonoran desert in Mazatlan where Glen, aka the Strikingviking, rolls out the welcome mat and gives me a whirlwind tour of the city. Historic colonial architecture, markets, sandy beaches, nightlife, Maz boasts a thriving tourism industry. We spend the days hitting some of Glen&#8217;s favorite eating establishments and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[30,21,8,113,41,27,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mazatlan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Lnhy-8d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}