{"id":5091,"date":"2016-01-28T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:13:48","slug":"an-unexpected-very-sweet-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/an-unexpected-very-sweet-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected &#038; Very Sweet Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"larger-type\"><b>We appreciate it when our guests share their stories with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Carol Schlafly, from Nashville, TN, wrote us about her\u00a0recent escorted adventure in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/coppercanyon\/index.html\">Copper Canyon<\/a>:<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was all just wonderful, food was great, all arrangements were just great,\u00a0the hotels were great too! Rob [California Native guide] is wonderful \u2014\u00a0whatever we needed, he made it happen. Our al fresco lunch on the way to Batopilas was an unexpected and very sweet surprise.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the prep work was great \u2014 wonderful info, all arrangements were very smooth, instructions were good. All the local guides and drivers were wonderful. A+ for all, lunch on the beach after petting the dolphins was great!<\/p>\n<p>It was an adventure, we saw and\u00a0did things I would not have ordinarily done, we saw some amazing terrain and\u00a0some excitement along the way! Very exciting!<\/p>\n<p>Rob Aikins is amazing. I could write a book on all the things he handled &amp; how patient and\u00a0understanding he was. His knowledge of the area and\u00a0the contacts (he knows everyone) are fabulous. I would definetly recommend this tour to friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Carol Schlafly<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nNashville,\u00a0TN<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5095\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5095\" title=\"Enjoying a picnic in Copper Canyon!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CC-Dining-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Enjoying a picnic in Copper Canyon!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CC-Dining-for-blog.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CC-Dining-for-blog-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CC-Dining-for-blog-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoying a picnic in Copper Canyon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We appreciate it when our guests share their stories with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Carol Schlafly, from Nashville, TN, wrote us about her\u00a0recent escorted adventure in the Copper Canyon: It was all just wonderful, food was great, all arrangements were just great,\u00a0the hotels were great too! Rob [California Native &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/an-unexpected-very-sweet-surprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Unexpected &#038; Very Sweet Surprise!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[163,217,105,15,108,100,241,107,11,12,124,41,80,33,35,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}