{"id":117541,"date":"2021-04-07T05:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=117541"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T05:21:46","slug":"the-hitchhiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=117541","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117542\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1611.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1611-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1611-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1611-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1611-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i really needed to challenge myself to something different. \u00a0so i drove my car down the road and hid my slippers in a tree. \u00a0i did this because i knew if i succeeded, i would have to walk a few miles back to my car. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117543\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4081.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4081-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4081-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4081-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4081-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then i drove barefoot up the coast, parked my car, and jumped off these rocks. \u00a0i paddled out, caught a wave, pumped straight out to sea, and then started to foil the wind swell as far as i could. \u00a0it was my first time so i was pretty exited. \u00a0maybe too excited because my heartbeat was so high that my cardio was pretty bad. \u00a0i fell 3x so had to paddle all the way back to the waves, catch one, pump back out, and do it all over again. \u00a0it was probably the best workout i&#8217;ve done in my life. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117544\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4083.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4083.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4083-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4083-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4083-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4083-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so i made it a couple miles down, grab my slippers from the tree, then start the 40 minute walk back to my car. \u00a0half way there, a guy pulled behind me and said &#8220;unko, you need a ride?&#8221; \u00a0thank you Zeke Lau for taking this old man back to his car. \u00a0i was almost going to give up and never do that again. \u00a0but now, i&#8217;m going to keep trying until i accomplish my mission&#8230; \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117545\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4084-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4084-rotated.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4084-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4084-559x420.jpg 559w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4084-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_4084-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i haven&#8217;t been this tired in a while. \u00a0from paddling, to foiling, to hiking, to walking. \u00a0i hope to be able to do this without being so tired. \u00a0until then, i&#8217;ll never give up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i really needed to challenge myself to something different. \u00a0so i drove my car down the road and hid my slippers in a tree. \u00a0i did this because i knew if i succeeded, i would have to walk a few miles back to my car. \u00a0 then i drove barefoot up the coast, parked my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117546,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117541\/revisions\/117546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}