{"id":1381,"date":"2012-10-02T05:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:07:33","slug":"october-1-sightseeing-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/10\/02\/october-1-sightseeing-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"October 1: Sightseeing in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kinzua<\/a>
Kinzua Bridge (Tornado Damaged in 2003)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mile 12,170 (we were driven around).<\/strong>\u00a0 Today we went out sightseeing and were driven around for a change.\u00a0 We went to the Kinzua Bridge, a railroad viaduct orginally built in the late 1890’s— at the time the highest bridge in the world.\u00a0 Regular use was abandoned in 1959, and it was made into a tourist train attraction.\u00a0 In 2003, a tornado tore down part of the bridge and now the part that is still standing ends in an observation platform with a glass floor.\u00a0 We also went to the Kinzua Dam and Reservoir in the Allegheny River.<\/p>\n

We saw no foreign tourists, and it was not overcrowded.\u00a0 Sometimes, lesser-known attractions closer to home are just as enjoyable and allow for more serene pleasures.<\/p>\n

\"Kinzua<\/a>
Kinzua Dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"First<\/a>
First Fork Lodge, Austin, Pennsylvania (our lodging)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wendy<\/a>
Wendy and Al’s House (Austin, Pennsylvania)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wendy<\/a>
Sister Wendy and Husband Al<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mile 12,170 (we were driven around).\u00a0 Today we went out sightseeing and were driven around for a change.\u00a0 We went to the Kinzua Bridge, a railroad viaduct orginally built in the late 1890’s— at the time the highest bridge in the world.\u00a0 Regular use was abandoned in 1959, and it was made into a tourist … Continue reading “October 1: Sightseeing in Pennsylvania”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}