{"id":53926,"date":"2015-03-04T20:44:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=53926"},"modified":"2015-03-04T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:44:21","slug":"el-salvador-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=53926","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador Day 1:  Airport to Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4560.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4560-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4560\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53927\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhen i arrived at atlanta airport, i was so thirsty so i drank water from the water fountain.  yuck!!!  it didn&#8217;t taste good at all!  seemed like there were chemicals in the water.  it&#8217;s times like this that make me appreciate the pure freshness of hawaiian water.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4561.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4561-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4561\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53928\" \/><\/a><br \/>\na $10 sandwich from honolulu airport for dinner, then a $12 breakfast at atlanta airport.  so expensive!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4562.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4562-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4562\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53929\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhen i got to el salvador, the first thing i saw was Subway and Pizza Hut????  OMG!  i was shocked!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4563.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4563-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4563\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53930\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nbut seeing the palm trees made me happy.  the sky looked exactly like hawaii.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4564.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4564-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4564\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53931\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;m so happy my surfboards made it.  i hear so many horror stories about surfers arriving to places without their boards.  that sucks!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4566.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4566-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4566\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53935\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe TSA inspected my board bag.  i&#8217;m sure they had a hard time opening up all that duck tape.  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4565.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4565-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4565\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53933\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSAL is San Salvador!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4567.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4567-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4567\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53936\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe 40 minute drive to the coast line was cool.  just people watching like usual.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4570-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4570\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53932\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsuch a simple life people live here.  so mellow and so relaxed.  just what i was looking for.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4568.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4568-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4568\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53934\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nmy driver was blasting his radio with all 80&#8217;s music.  then he started singing.  it was like free karaoke!  haha.  he couldn&#8217;t speak english, i can&#8217;t speak spanish.  so it was a very interesting body language drive.<br \/>\ngo to my place, changed, surfed, did yoga, drank a beer, made a lot of friends, and had a great evening.  everybody told me the waves have been shitty all year.  today was the first day in a long time since the waves came overhead.  when i was out, it was way overhead, almost double.  i broke my leash on my 3rd wave, came in, drank a beer, and watched the most beautiful sunset i&#8217;ve ever seen.  made a local friend, he&#8217;s picking me up tomorrow morning at 5:30am to guide me and it&#8217;s supposed to be the best day of the year.  i can&#8217;t wait!  good night from el salvador!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when i arrived at atlanta airport, i was so thirsty so i drank water from the water fountain. yuck!!! it didn&#8217;t taste good at all! seemed like there were chemicals in the water. it&#8217;s times like this that make me appreciate the pure freshness of hawaiian water. a $10 sandwich from honolulu airport for dinner, [&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-53926","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\/53926","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=53926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}