{"id":1765,"date":"2012-08-23T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:28:27","slug":"scenes-from-sicily-uno-san-vito-lo-capo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2012\/08\/23\/scenes-from-sicily-uno-san-vito-lo-capo\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Sicily, Uno &#8211; San Vito Lo Capo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0211_san_vito_lo_capo_truk_kath_autophoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1766 aligncenter\" title=\"0211_san_vito_lo_capo_truk_kath_autophoto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0211_san_vito_lo_capo_truk_kath_autophoto-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0211_san_vito_lo_capo_truk_kath_autophoto-300x247.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0211_san_vito_lo_capo_truk_kath_autophoto-1024x844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, we will have been back from Sicily for a month as of tomorrow, and I can&#8217;t believe it has passed so quickly. Re-entry is always difficult after a long trip, but we&#8217;re adjusting to life in Memphis again and enjoying the recently cooler weather.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made some progress on processing the photos we took while over there and was able to cull the image total down to about 1000, which is probably pretty good, given we had 2 cameras going for over 3 weeks each.<\/p>\n<p>While memories of the trip are fresh in my mind, I&#8217;m going to post a few over the next few weeks with notes about where they were taken.<\/p>\n<p>This shot of the two of us was taken in the northwest area of Sicily, <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=sicily&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=38.12794,12.778301&amp;spn=0.051988,0.062313&amp;sll=35.129186,-89.970787&amp;sspn=0.432413,0.53009&amp;hnear=Sicily,+Italy&amp;t=h&amp;z=14\">near San Vito Lo Capo<\/a>. There, it is possible to drive on a little snaking road, up switchbacks and somehow clinging to the side of crumbing hills, to where civilization gives out and the Riserva Naturale dello Zingaro (a nature reserve) picks up. It is very remote remote area (electrical line notwithstanding), with a raw, arid beauty, bounded by mountains and reflected by a\u00a0turquoise\u00a0sea.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107529286825657502272\/albums\/5773422425950346945\">full album of images from our trip here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we will have been back from Sicily for a month as of tomorrow, and I can&#8217;t believe it has passed so quickly. Re-entry is always difficult after a long trip, but we&#8217;re adjusting to life in Memphis again and enjoying the recently cooler weather. I&#8217;ve made some progress on processing the photos we took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[152,158],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-152","tag-sicily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}