{"id":102,"date":"2011-04-07T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:42:11","slug":"more-progress-and-a-neat-photo-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/words\/more-progress-and-a-neat-photo-too\/","title":{"rendered":"More progress and a neat photo too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been pretty productive. So far I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Received a response (including initial rough quote) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventurebiketours.co.uk\/china.htm\">Adventure Bike Tours<\/a>, regarding joining them for transit through China from Kazakhstan to Laos. Yes, it&#8217;s expensive. It&#8217;s probably also completely worth it.<\/li>\n<li>Started scanning important documents (which I&#8217;ll store in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/\">DropBox<\/a> account so that they&#8217;re accessible on all my devices and securely online).<\/li>\n<li>Purchased international travel insurance for June &#8211; November, through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnomads.com\/\">WorldNomads<\/a> (on the recommendation of my friend, former co-worker and fellow crazy traveler\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wandermom.com\/\">Michelle Duffy<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Looked more into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medjetassist.com\">MedJetAssist<\/a> &#8211; I need to read the fine print on my WorldNomads policy a little more closely to figure out whether I need to add this.<\/li>\n<li>Began looking into purchase of an emergency insurance policy for the US, in case of medically-necessitated return.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also had coffee and conversation with my good friend Tabasco, who luckily got first dibs on a big pile of clothes that I&#8217;m giving away (not to worry, gentlemen, he took mostly work clothes. Being a blacksmith, he is rough on work shirts and such). This evening, I&#8217;ve got plans to visit with other dear friends.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, good day!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s a neat photo that was recently taken of me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogalthorpe.com\/\">Jeremy Center<\/a>, a most excellent photographer I&#8217;ve known for a few years. Check out his work!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Stuart-motogear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103\" title=\"Stuart-motogear\" src=\"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Stuart-motogear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Stuart-motogear.jpg 526w, http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Stuart-motogear-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been pretty productive. So far I have: Received a response (including initial rough quote) from Adventure Bike Tours, regarding joining them for transit through China from Kazakhstan to Laos. Yes, it&#8217;s expensive. It&#8217;s probably also completely worth it. Started scanning important documents (which I&#8217;ll store in a DropBox account so that they&#8217;re accessible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}