{"id":527,"date":"2005-05-18T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/and-2-more\/index.php"},"modified":"2005-05-18T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T16:13:02","slug":"and-2-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/and-2-more\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"and 2 more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ding ding ding!!!<\/p>\n<p>wow, it seems like every time i look at the calendar, it&#8217;s been 2 more months that i&#8217;ve been on the road.  it&#8217;s starting to seem almost weird that i&#8217;ve ever had a life different than this.  how is it that i used to spend my days before this trip?  sitting all day in front of a computer working? ew. anyways, here&#8217;s a quick recap of what i&#8217;ve done i the last 2 months:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my backpack almost stolen on an indian train;  I&#8217;ve worn a skirt&#8230; ahem, i mean a longyi;  I&#8217;ve befriended a guy from myanmar who spent two days showing me around his city;  I&#8217;ve been secretly slipped hand written pro-democracy notes while on a bus in a country ruled by a military dictatorship;   i&#8217;ve seen a buddha statue taller han a 10 story building and another buddha statue as long as a football field;  i&#8217;ve gone on a two day boat trip w\/ a burmese family to a spirit festival that no other toursit has ben to before;  i witnessed two fights in two consecutive days;  i was invited to eat freshly caught fish at a fisherman&#8217;s house;  i hung out at a lake where people grew gardens on the water and rowed boats w\/ their feet; i went trekking and slept in the home of a villager;  i met up w\/ my friend Ryan from home;  i got a new camera from my parents;  i got to drive scooters around again;  i saw caryn fall off a dive boat and have to get a dozen stitches; i met up w\/ my friend Jason from back home;  i spent an insane two days running around and spraying everyone w\/ water during Thailand&#8217;s water festival;  i&#8217;ve been blessed by a buddhist monk in a watt on top of a hill;  i drank a singapore sling in the bar where it was invented;  i&#8217;ve walked on the rim of an active volcano;  i saw Caryn teach people in a remote village how to do the electric slide while listening to Ice Ice Baby;  I saw the ferocious dragons of Komodo island; i scuba dived w\/ Manta Rays and also saw an eel over 6 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>heh, every new 2 months brings new adventures.<\/p>\n<p>anyways, i do this every two months, so here it is again.  if you&#8217;re out there and you are reading this, please comment to this post.  put whatever you want in your comment.  if you dont have much time or dont want to comment, then at least put hello.  otherwise, i have no clue who&#8217;s reading!<\/p>\n<p>*v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ding ding ding!!! wow, it seems like every time i look at the calendar, it&#8217;s been 2 more months that i&#8217;ve been on the road. it&#8217;s starting to seem almost weird that i&#8217;ve ever had a life different than this. how is it that i used to spend my days before this trip? sitting all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/and-2-more\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;and 2 more&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}