{"id":44878,"date":"2014-05-06T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T05:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=44878"},"modified":"2014-05-06T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T05:05:40","slug":"made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=44878","title":{"rendered":"Blue sky, light winds, good waves, and traffic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-19.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-19.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44879\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n12 days of traveling and only 4 days of diving.  this had to have been one of the longest trip of my entire lifetime.  8 airplanes with total time of 45 hours inflight, not too mention the hours and hours of check ins and transits.  i got stuck in LA last night, grabbed a hotel, slept, then straight back to the airport this morning.  luckily got a seat on a flight back to hawaii.  as soon as i got off the airplane, i told myself &#8220;i&#8217;m not traveling for a very long time!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-26.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-26.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44880\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe cool thing is that i am getting much more patient.  i seen some people almost having heart attacks because they couldn&#8217;t get on the flight.  there is absolutely nothing you can do when you&#8217;re traveling like this, nothing.  just sit patiently, and pray!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-48.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-48.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44882\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand look out the window watching airplanes leaving without you.  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-38.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-38.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44881\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni spent hundreds of dollars eating unhealthy food at airports.  this was my breakfast at LA and it was terrible.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-18.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44873\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe drive up my street is a very joyful time for me.  the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains, and fresh air revives my body and soul.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-25.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44874\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni ate a basic japanese lunch which i dearly missed.  i could eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner forever.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-47.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-47.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44875\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen straight to the beach!  paddled out and felt so free!  and luckily the waves were perfect and uncrowded!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-54.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-54.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44876\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen driving home and watching all the construction going on.  it&#8217;s the first time i appreciated traffic.  haha.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m totally jet lagged now.  hopefully i can get some good sleep before my normal lifestyle starts tomorrow.  want to thank the hawaiian crew for the wonderful time in panama.  and thank each and every person i met along the way.  goodnight from beautiful hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 days of traveling and only 4 days of diving. this had to have been one of the longest trip of my entire lifetime. 8 airplanes with total time of 45 hours inflight, not too mention the hours and hours of check ins and transits. i got stuck in LA last night, grabbed a hotel, [&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-44878","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\/44878","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=44878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}