{"id":141366,"date":"2026-02-07T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=141366"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:12:59","slug":"the-journey-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=141366","title":{"rendered":"The Journey Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141367\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 1600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-696x522.png 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1068x801.png 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-560x420.png 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-265x198.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a tiny island in the middle of the Sulu Sea. \u00a0My friend sent me this photo of yesterdays weather and waves. \u00a0He&#8217;s the only person on the island and is so surfed out that he just watches hundreds of empty days go unridden everyday. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been able to make it there because it&#8217;s so remote that it takes 4 flights, long layovers, bus rides, and a boat ride to get there. \u00a0I just a booked a few tickets and will head that way. \u00a0Whether I make it that far I don&#8217;t know. \u00a0But in between, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find some fun things to do. \u00a0I just put some surf trunks and t-shirts in my backpack and will be heading to the airport. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t done a solo backpack trip like this in a very long time so I&#8217;m super excited. \u00a0If I surf, great. \u00a0If I don&#8217;t surf, great too. \u00a0As of now, I&#8217;m totally over surfed out so I wouldn&#8217;t mind just sitting in the jungle watching gorillas and monkeys swinging on trees. \u00a0Just going to go with the flow and see where this journey takes me. \u00a0See ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tiny island in the middle of the Sulu Sea. \u00a0My friend sent me this photo of yesterdays weather and waves. \u00a0He&#8217;s the only person on the island and is so surfed out that he just watches hundreds of empty days go unridden everyday. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been able to make it there because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366","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=141366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141370,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366\/revisions\/141370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}