{"id":7948,"date":"2024-02-25T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:48:05","slug":"caverns-of-sonora-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7948","title":{"rendered":"Caverns of Sonora, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While travelling west towards Vista we stopped at the Caverns of Sonora. They have a small RV Park there which was real convenient! They also have several peacocks on the property and our site looked towards the fence onto a working ranch. One afternoon several cows strolled up to the fence right next to us and Chloe went crazy barking! Once we got her calmed down she watched the cows for quite a while. They, however, showed no interest in her at all.<br>The caverns are billed as \u201cWorld Famous\u201d and it\u2019s mostly because it has some very unique features that even other cavern owners and experts agree are truly amazing! These unique features include soda straws that grow in every direction instead of just down, tons and tons of popcorn areas and stalactites that fan out like a fish tail or butterfly wing.<br>Here are some pics we took:<\/p>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>.rbs_gallery_69e5ada132e56Spinner{\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 50px auto;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50px;\r\n\t\t\t\theight: 40px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5ada132e56Spinner > div{\r\n\t\t\t  background-color: #333;\r\n\t\t\t  height: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t  width: 6px;\r\n\t\t\t  display: inline-block;\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation: rbs_gallery_69e5ada132e56-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t  animation: rbs_gallery_69e5ada132e56-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5ada132e56Spinner .rbs_gallery_69e5ada132e56Rect2 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: 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They have a small RV Park there which was real convenient! They also have several peacocks on the property and our site looked towards the fence onto a working ranch. One afternoon several cows strolled up to the fence right next to us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caverns of Sonora, TX<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-219-sonora-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}