{"id":13,"date":"2013-11-05T03:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/?p=13"},"modified":"2024-02-12T04:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T04:58:13","slug":"purchasing-a-plane-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/2013\/11\/05\/purchasing-a-plane-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_426_RUTAN\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cropped-Istanbul_wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cropped-Istanbul_wide.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-Istanbul_wide.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cropped-Istanbul_wide.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cropped-Istanbul_wide-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cropped-Istanbul_wide-1024x147.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_426_RUTAN\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_9785_gothic\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have been fortunate enough to be able to travel extensively. I posted this on Facebook at the end of my last trip to Asia this summer and I think it nicely sums up my feeling about travel:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_426_RUTAN\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_9785_gothic\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0 Getting ready for a very short sleep for my 3:15am wake up call for my journey home.\u00a0 It has been a wonderful five weeks in Asia. As usual, I&#8217;m thankful for the opportunity and privilege to travel. And as usual, I am blessed with generous friends and family who opened their homes for me, chauffeured me in crazy traffic, and most importantly, made time for me.\u00a0 And as usual, I met some interesting people, saw some amazing sites, and ate some delicious meals.\u00a0 And finally, at the end of each trip, I always go back to what Pico Iyer wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_426_RUTAN\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br style=\"font-size: 14px;\" \/> <em style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_438_nobilty\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_438_nobilty\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span id=\"inserted959\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_414_PORTCRED\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_465_eurof56\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_9785_gothic\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_426_RUTAN\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_9785_gothic\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I created these pages after I gave a talk called <strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Come &#8216;Travel&#8217; With Me<\/em><\/strong> at my school&#8217;s library. \u00a0Send me a message if you have any suggestions. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_426_RUTAN\" style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a style=\"font-size: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/come-travel-with-me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19\" style=\"font-size: 17px;\" src=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/come-travel-with-me-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"come travel with me\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/come-travel-with-me-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/come-travel-with-me.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_8631_arlrdbd\" style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_16787_PWScript09\"><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_15777_Calligraphic421BT\">Happy Travel!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Savio (Nov. 2013)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have been fortunate enough to be able to travel extensively. I posted this on Facebook at the end of my last trip to Asia this summer and I think it nicely sums up my feeling about travel: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Getting ready for a very short sleep for my 3:15am wake up call for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46JhB-d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}