{"id":26857,"date":"2012-11-30T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=26857"},"modified":"2012-11-30T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:12:11","slug":"my-top-10-greatest-travel-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=26857","title":{"rendered":"My top 10 Greatest Travel Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, so i added up the flight time and time spent at airports.  i was gone for 11 days but only spent 7 days in argentina\/uruguay.  and the rest, i was either up in the air, or down at the airports.  total 10 full flights, 43 hours in the airplane, and another 22 hours at airports.  i sure learned a lot on being a standby flyer.  first, you have to be super patient.  second, you have to have a very flexible schedule.  and last, you have to go with the flow.  that was the part i knew how to do the best.  i seen other standby people that couldn&#8217;t get on the flight freaking out and totally stressing. this kind of traveling isn&#8217;t for everybody.  and it almost wasn&#8217;t for me.  after getting stuck in detroit on the way there, i almost gave up and flew back home to hawaii.  but if i did, that would be a failure and failure is not in my dictionary.  so i kept positive and kept on moving forward.  and after 2 days, i finally made it to argentina!  yatta!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26858\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-141.jpg\" alt=\"photo 14\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26858\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand while i was sitting in the back of the airplanes in economy class, there were delta advertisements on the screen for private jet charters.  gosh, i miss traveling in private jets.  haha.  but this advertisement kept on flashing and kept on reminding me how comfortable those private jets were.  if i flew to south america in a private jet and backpacked at $15 hostels, all my friends would call me an &#8220;idiot.&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26859\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_6050.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6050\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26859\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe highlight of my trip was the amazing sunset in Cabo Polonio.  even though it took me days to get there by plane, taxi, bus, ferry, bus, and rent a car.  it was worth all the hard work.  i can still remember screaming and running down the hill to the beach with my camera in one hand and my uruguay beer in the other.  i felt like a little kid that seen santa clause.  that moment has to be in my top 10 moments of my life and i will never forget it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26861\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_4005.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4005\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26861\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsomething wrong in the photo?  yes.  mcdonalds???  for the past 22 years, i watched slowly as mcdonald&#8217;s invaded japan, indonesia, philippines, and almost everywhere i&#8217;ve traveled too.  now it&#8217;s invading south america.  a new mcdonalds restaurant on the 1st floor of a thousand year building?  that&#8217;s pretty sad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26860\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26860\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo5.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26860\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni wake up yesterday, go for a surf, eat a healthy lunch, then hang out at down at the beach in my surf trunks, slippers, and no tshirt.  i had to take this photo to show you my panoramic view!  i couldn&#8217;t have felt better to be back to paradise.  as for now, i don&#8217;t want to leave this beautiful island.  but next week, i&#8217;ll probably be planning another trip.  haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, so i added up the flight time and time spent at airports. i was gone for 11 days but only spent 7 days in argentina\/uruguay. and the rest, i was either up in the air, or down at the airports. total 10 full flights, 43 hours in the airplane, and another 22 hours at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857","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=26857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}