{"id":350,"date":"2010-06-01T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-06-04T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T19:25:01","slug":"and-im-off-journey-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/and-im-off-journey-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"And I&#8217;m Off&#8230;Journey to Africa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in the Minneapolis airport.\u00a0 Looks like a thunderstorm outside.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uneventful travel with the exception of losing all my confirmed seating due to the way the travel agent booked my tickets.\u00a0\u00a0 I got an exit row from Dallas to Minneapolis so I was able to stretch out my legs, but not able to lean the seat back.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only had 3 hours sleep in the last day and a half.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m ready to arrive in Entebbe Airport in Uganda, and start my African adventure.\u00a0\u00a0 I actually am very excited about it.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be traveling with Katie and her husband Robert and their two small children from Amsterdam forward.\u00a0\u00a0 Katie is a social worker and she will travel with me on a few of my trips to the orphanages.\u00a0\u00a0 Robert is from Uganda and so he knows all the culture there and can advise us in the best possible way.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m thankful for them, otherwise I&#8217;d travel alone.<br \/>\n&#8216;<br \/>\nTo the man who kept passing gas on the plane sitting in front of me going to Minn, (LOUDLY I might add)&#8230;shame on you.\u00a0 Although all the 15 giggly teen girls thought it was funny, hilarious even&#8230;those particular farts were NOT funny to endure.<\/p>\n<p>I was up most of the night trying to go over in my mind what I might have forgotten.\u00a0 I do this every time I travel.\u00a0\u00a0 In the end there is usually something I didn&#8217;t get or do.\u00a0\u00a0 This time, I think I packed essential medication in my check-in bag.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that the bag somehow connects to me my flights were so weird and flights were canceled and my travel agency didn&#8217;t notify me, so who knows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in the Minneapolis airport.\u00a0 Looks like a thunderstorm outside.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uneventful travel with the exception of losing all my confirmed seating due to the way the travel agent booked my tickets.\u00a0\u00a0 I got an exit row from Dallas to Minneapolis so I was able to stretch out my legs, but not able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}