{"id":97,"date":"2010-05-10T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-04-07T20:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T04:35:53","slug":"failure-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Failure to Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugio turned from a launch into a test drive. We did not expect our Suburban to perform incredibly well, but we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect it to suck, either.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a typical camping trip for us. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hauling a good part of our lives along with us (e.g. the 24\u00e2\u20ac\u009d iMac I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently typing on). All that life stuff adds up in weight and while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure the Suburban is great for weekend camping, it was not going to pull us over 10,000+ foot passes in Colorado. As a \u00c2\u00bd ton with a 5.3L engine it was hard to keep it at 55 on flat ground and it couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t handle bumps without bouncing like a Cadillac.<\/p>\n<p>We decided that we were going to need a more suitable tow vehicle and returned to Ventura for a better prepared (and more permanent) launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugio turned from a launch into a test drive. We did not expect our Suburban to perform incredibly well, but we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect it to suck, either. This is not a typical camping trip for us. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hauling a good part of our lives along with us (e.g. the 24\u00e2\u20ac\u009d iMac I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently typing on). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveandcourt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}