{"id":131,"date":"2006-12-11T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/12\/11\/about-that-trip\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:47:02","slug":"about-that-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/12\/11\/about-that-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"About that trip&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still going.  But maybe backwards.  It seems like things might be less hectic because of festivals, crowded slow boats, etc. if I go to Siem Reap first and then the other way through Laos (Vientiane, then Luang Prabang, then boat to the Huay Xai border) and then back down through northern Thailand.  But hey, I&#8217;ve got time.<\/p>\n<p>This has a few advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The boat from Luang Prabang is much less popular than the boat to it.<\/li>\n<li>I miss the flower festival in Chiang Mai in a couple days.<\/li>\n<li>If I need to skip anything, it&#8217;ll be in Thailand (which is not the priority).<\/li>\n<li>If I get malaria on the slow boat, I&#8217;ll come down with it in Bangkok or Hong Kong instead of Siem Reap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks like I&#8217;ll need to leave Lingnan around 9 a.m. tomorrow, assuming about an hour each for transport to ferry, ferry, and transport to airport.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post when I can, but of course getting online when traveling is never certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still going. But maybe backwards. It seems like things might be less hectic because of festivals, crowded slow boats, etc. if I go to Siem Reap first and then the other way through Laos (Vientiane, then Luang Prabang, then boat to the Huay Xai border) and then back down through northern Thailand. But hey, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/12\/11\/about-that-trip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About that trip&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,115,114,106,112],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-cambodia","tag-lao","tag-mekong","tag-southeast-asia","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}