{"id":48,"date":"2007-11-18T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-11-18T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:25:30","slug":"traveling-by-electron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Traveling by Electron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>32\u00a0 60%\u00a0 37%\u00a0 4mph\u00a0 windroseNNE\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 dewpoint19\u00a0 First Quarter of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiseason<\/p>\n<p>Traveling is not the same in the age of the internet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s way better.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;re going to Hawai&#8217;i in February.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve handled all of our arrangements over the internet, including dinner reservations on February 14th at Mama&#8217;s Fish House on Maui.\u00a0 My 61st birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Odegard, living in Shanghai, e-mailed me today and recommended a place to stay on Kauai, the Fish Shack, right on the ocean.\u00a0 Just e-mailed them to see if it&#8217;s available for the time I&#8217;ll be on Kauai by myself.<\/p>\n<p>Now travelers abroad are not cutoff from their support networks or from ways of gaining information about the cities and countries through which they travel.\u00a0 Both are as close as the nearest internet cafe or wireless connection if you have your own laptop along.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, I&#8217;m in frequent contact with my sister in Singapore and my brother in Pnomh Penh.\u00a0 By e-mail.\u00a0 Also, any travel with an interest in my life can read this blog and find out a little bit about me and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the magical mythical tour.\u00a0 Another form of travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>32\u00a0 60%\u00a0 37%\u00a0 4mph\u00a0 windroseNNE\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 dewpoint19\u00a0 First Quarter of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiseason Traveling is not the same in the age of the internet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s way better.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;re going to Hawai&#8217;i in February.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve handled all of our arrangements over the internet, including dinner reservations on February 14th at Mama&#8217;s Fish House on Maui.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traveling by Electron<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,45,4343],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-hawaii","tag-internet","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}