{"id":1406,"date":"2011-05-08T20:52:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T18:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T09:24:18","slug":"usa-trip-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"USA Trip 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the first things Tanya<\/a> told me after we met is that she wants to go to Disney World<\/a>. Well, the time has come<\/a> (we wanted to do it last year this time but the FIFA world cup<\/a> pushed airfare prices through the roof).<\/p>\n

Tickets are booked, we’re flying out on the 15th of June and returning on the 9th of July. Our itinerary is explained in detail in the page linked at the top right<\/a> — it’s password protected to foil stalkers or something<\/del>.<\/p>\n

Brief outline: San Diego, rent-a-car to Los Angeles and San Francisco, then fly to Las Vegas, rent-a-car to the Grand Canyon and up to Ogden and Yellowstone. Fly to New Orleans for a brief visit, then the dreaded Disney to extract what money we might have left from our pocketbooks.<\/p>\n

We’ll be staying in hotels, with friends, and camping. We’ll be seeing museums<\/a> and zoos<\/a> and geysers and wildlife<\/a> and cemeteries<\/a> and talking meese<\/a>. Jessica is hoping to meet up with a famous author<\/a> whose work we might one day see on TV<\/a>, but only if his<\/a> crazy<\/a> schedule<\/a> coincides with ours<\/a>. We’ll be blogging along the way, I have an EEE running puppee<\/a>, Tanya has a Dell 910<\/a>, Jessica has an Acer Aspire One (now running XP<\/a>) and Tamsyn has an EEE running XP. Tanya has a new camera<\/a>, and memsticks and CF cards are on order.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be hectic.

One of the first things Tanya told me after we met is that she wants to go to Disney World. Well, the time has come (we wanted to do it last year this time but the FIFA world cup pushed airfare prices through the roof). Tickets are booked, we’re flying out on the 15th of June and returning on the 9th of July. Our itinerary is explained in detail in the page linked at the top right — it’s password protected to foil stalkers or something. Brief outline: San Diego, rent-a-car to Los Angeles and San Francisco, then fly to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}