{"id":67,"date":"2010-07-17T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T00:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-10-20T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T00:48:13","slug":"west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2010\/07\/17\/west\/","title":{"rendered":"West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With scarcely a couple of days to unwind from, and reflect upon, the majesty and mystery of the Festival (and to make a final, futile attempt to discover the source of a leak in a newly dug pond), the folks and myself set out for Seattle, listening along the way to the delightful and fascinating audiobook of Christopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismcdougall.com\/\" target=\"_self\">McDougall<\/a>\u2019s <em>Born To Run<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After a few days lollygagging in Seattle (during which time I picked up my final paycheck, said some goodbyes, and bought me a pair of Luna <a href=\"http:\/\/lunasandals.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Sandals<\/a>), seven of us arose early Saturday morning, and made our way to the Sea-Tac, from which we boarded an aeroplane bound for Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Would you believe that this was only my second-ever flight? The first, in 1987,\u00a0 hardly even counts: a basic one-hour hop from Spokane to Great Falls aboard a little nine-seater. Otherwise I had, primarily for ecological reasons, but also out of a genuine preference for auto-based road-trips (including those aboard buses), lived a flight-free existence.<\/p>\n<p>After de-planing in Honolulu, we picked up a few vehicles, and caravanned to a rental on the North Shore, in which nine (!) of us would reside for the next ten days. A short walk down the beach, another branch of the family, five strong, had shacked up in their own rental.<\/p>\n<p>The view from our back yard:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-69\" href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?attachment_id=69\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69\" title=\"2010-07-21 - 192451\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-21-192451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-21-192451.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-21-192451-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-21-192451-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With scarcely a couple of days to unwind from, and reflect upon, the majesty and mystery of the Festival (and to make a final, futile attempt to discover the source of a leak in a newly dug pond), the folks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2010\/07\/17\/west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trippin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}