{"id":4144,"date":"2025-10-10T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:34:21","slug":"2025-portland-and-seattle-with-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/2025-portland-and-seattle-with-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Barbara and Nowell&#8217;s Excellent Portland and Seattle Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We planned to go to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico on October 7 but the government shutdown made that impossible so we flew to Portland Oregon instead. Three days there then two in Seattle (one a birthday celebration day) was a welcome respite from the nonsense. I knew several of the places we visited because Bruce and I did a trip there in 2004. Wednesday and Thursday was a whirlwind two days before driving to Seattle on Friday. The only place I didn&#8217;t take photos was The Grotto. <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrotto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(If you are Catholic it is a must go. Their website)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d110064537e2486828c1bd6213dfb2b8\"><strong>Each city has a photo page. Click to see them.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/2025-portland-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Portland Photos<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/2025-seattle-photos-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Seattle Photos<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Seattle Photos<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We planned to go to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico on October 7 but the government shutdown made that impossible so we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[199,197,198,200],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barbara-lemke","tag-portland","tag-seattle","tag-the-grotto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}