{"id":9685,"date":"2022-10-25T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2022-11-23T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T01:13:53","slug":"newport-beach-then-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/10\/25\/newport-beach-then-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport Beach then back home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9757\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200004-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200004-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200004.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We drove down from San Dimas on a Saturday morning and the traffic made me wonder if it would have been worse Friday during rush hour.\u00a0\u00a0 We arrived before noon<a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9754\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200001-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200001-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200001.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> and wasn&#8217;t sure if they were sticklers about check-in time.\u00a0 Turns out they are not and we got to our site for the next few nights within a few minutes of noon.<\/p>\n<p>The site I had chosen was long enough for us and was wide enough to fit the car next to us with room to spare.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t overlooking the water, but as we were in town to see the kids, we didn&#8217;t expect to be here that much.\u00a0\u00a0 The place turned out to be very nice.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised as the reviews were very mixed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9755\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200002.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200002-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200002-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This campground is a few minutes from the kids&#8217; house, so it was a very convenient place to stay while visiting them.\u00a0 Really nice walkway around the bay.\u00a0 Kathy and Dusty enjoyed going down there every morning and afternoon.\u00a0 We had a great time seeing Chris and Shelly and going out on the town!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9756\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200003.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200003-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NewPortBeachOct2022-200003-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove down from San Dimas on a Saturday morning and the traffic made me wonder if it would have been worse Friday during rush hour.\u00a0\u00a0 We arrived before noon and wasn&#8217;t sure if they were sticklers about check-in time.\u00a0 Turns out they are not and we got to our site for the next few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/10\/25\/newport-beach-then-back-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newport Beach then back home.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campgrounds","category-traveling-the-hiways-and-byways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9685"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9758,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685\/revisions\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}