{"id":2290,"date":"2012-05-30T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2012-05-30T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:26:14","slug":"leaving-my-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"Leaving my comfort zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; namely, Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?attachment_id=2292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hawaiianpunks-183x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hawaiianpunks-183x320.jpg 183w, http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hawaiianpunks.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If all goes as planned, tomorrow I&#8217;m heading off to vacation in Hawaii (specifically, Waikoloa on the island of Kona) for a week and then to San Francisco for three days. \u00a0Doing some volcano eyeing, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transit_of_Venus,_2012\">Venus watching<\/a> and snorkeling while in Hawaii, and tourist-nerdy stuff in Frisco.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my first time outside Canada since 2004, my longest trip to the US and A, and my first time off continental North America. \u00a0I hope you are suitably impressed by my effort here.<\/p>\n<p>Not too worried; air travel is safe if sometimes nauseating, and I have nothing to fear but <a href=\"http:\/\/pamelakinnairdw.hubpages.com\/hub\/Big-Centipedes-in-Hawaii-Paradise-Anyone\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/image\/64972643\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conus\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiisharks.com\/\">this,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiiforvisitors.com\/nature\/box-jellyfish.htm\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/spotcrime.com\/ca\/san+francisco\">this<\/a>,\u00a0and maybe a few other things. \u00a0Nothing to be concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not taking a computer with me so probably not much communication going on until I return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; namely, Canada. If all goes as planned, tomorrow I&#8217;m heading off to vacation in Hawaii (specifically, Waikoloa on the island of Kona) for a week and then to San Francisco for three days. \u00a0Doing some volcano eyeing, Venus watching and snorkeling while in Hawaii, and tourist-nerdy stuff in Frisco. This will be my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}