{"id":179,"date":"2011-07-03T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-07-03T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:28:12","slug":"usa-usa-usa1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/archives\/179","title":{"rendered":"USA! USA! USA1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve had a few people now wondering exactly what our plans are and when we&#8217;re going to be back in BC again. This provides a natural opportunity to get everyone up-to-speed at once. I normally don&#8217;t like to advertise our future plans too much, lest the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/pleaserobme.com\" target=\"_blank\">PleaseRobMe.com<\/a> deduce that our house will be unoccupied for certain dates. But with our move and summer plans it&#8217;s a bit different &#8211; now, I&#8217;m only concerned about pirates in the North Atlantic hijacking our worldly goods as they make their way back to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now just a few weeks away from leaving England, which we&#8217;re all quite sad about. It&#8217;s been a great year here and it will be hard to say goodbye. Despite what so many English people seem to feel, this really is a great country and I think we all take things we have for granted.<\/p>\n<p>School finishes here on July 22nd (yes, they go to school in July), and on the 23rd we will be down in Devon celebrating Rachel&#8217;s parents&#8217; 40th wedding anniversary. Then we will be leaving the UK on July 24th and traveling across America on the train. I&#8217;ve said to some people that we&#8217;re going back to Vancouver &#8220;the long way&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The details of our trip are on <a title=\"USA 2011 Trip\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/usa-2011-trip\" target=\"_blank\">the USA 2011 page<\/a>, which is also on the top menu of the blog. Basically, we&#8217;re flying to Miami and then traveling through New York, Niagara Falls, Chicago, the Grand Canyon, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, and on to Vancouver. We&#8217;re pretty excited about the trip and we&#8217;ll be posting lots of updates as we go along.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back in Vancouver on August 26th, and we&#8217;ll eventually be moving back into our house in early September after our renters have moved out.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, things are pretty busy. We&#8217;re sorting out all of the practical details while also trying to make time to see people and do things we&#8217;re still wanting to do. Sadly we won&#8217;t get to everything on our list, but looking back I do feel that we&#8217;ve made the most of our time.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s pretty much it. You can always post a comment if you have any questions. If I get a chance I&#8217;ll put up another post in the next little while talking more about the emotional impact of moving again, which is another topic in its own right.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"geolocation-link\" href=\"#\" id=\"geolocation179\" name=\"51.45,-2.58299999999997\" onclick=\"return false;\">Posted from Bristol, England, United Kingdom.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With lots of people asking about when we&#8217;re coming home and what we&#8217;re up to now, this post gives a bit more detail about our plans for the next couple of months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/archives\/179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mike","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/amtrak.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aZFm-2T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goetz.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}