{"id":16,"date":"2006-10-06T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-10-06T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T13:17:45","slug":"31-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"31 Days to Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, time sure is slipping away quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d be annoyed at this, largely because it would be creeping dangerously close to those rubbish winter months where you leave home in the dark and get home in the dark &#8211; and the only daylight you see is through blinds from your office desk.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, just as that time creeps in I&#8217;ll be swanning off to somewhere that&#8217;s about to enter Summertime.<\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s a bitch, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, with only 31 days to go before I set off (and 25 days before I leave work), I thought it&#8217;d be a nice idea to start doing daily updates.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with how far we&#8217;re along now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flights sorted<\/li>\n<li>Travel insurance sorted<\/li>\n<li>Visa sorted<\/li>\n<li>Photo driving license sorted<\/li>\n<li>Hostel booked for week in New York<\/li>\n<li>Hotel booked for night in LA<\/li>\n<li>Hostel booked for first two nights in Aukland<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwiexperience.com\">Kiwi Experience<\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwiexperience.com\/zephyr-backpacking-pass.aspx\">Zephyr<\/a>&#8221; trip booked (open date)<\/li>\n<li>Hostel booked for Melbourne from 18th December to 2nd January<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Various other bits have been sorted but they&#8217;re too dull to list even on that list.  I&#8217;m getting vaccinations on Monday&#8230; should be &#8220;fun&#8221;.  I&#8217;m getting quite excited&#8230; but more on how things are tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;m doing a daily photo prior to leaving too.  Here&#8217;s the first:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/squage\/262187527\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/52\/262187527_f50adcc015.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"31 Days to Go\" title=\"31 Day to Go\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>A potential design for the Big Adventure blog header (and other things requiring a logo).  Quite like this one&#8230; will probably go with it.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;d best get back to work (and staring at the rain thrashing down outside the office window (oh how I&#8217;ll miss this&#8230;)) &#8211; speak tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, time sure is slipping away quickly. Normally I&#8217;d be annoyed at this, largely because it would be creeping dangerously close to those rubbish winter months where you leave home in the dark and get home in the dark &#8211; and the only daylight you see is through blinds from your office desk. Fortunately, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countdown","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}