{"id":1229,"date":"2013-01-11T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-01-11T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T03:14:00","slug":"itinerary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Itinerary"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, some plans are finalizing and I’m getting very excited to have a break from life for a while. \u00a0Interested in where I’m headed? Well, here you go!<\/p>\n

Jan 22<\/strong> \u2013 Fly to Singapore and have some good Schlomerville time with my cousin JoElyn and my cousin Robin and her family! I hope we play some pinochle…<\/p>\n

Jan 25<\/strong> \u2013 Take a BOAT to Indonesia with JoElyn and play around the islands for a while. (When I say \u201cplay\u201d I use it like Chinese people use the word \u2018play\u2019. \u00a0Do you have to be a child to \u2018play?\u2019 Why, no sirree! Anyone can play. It\u2019s always funny to me when they use this word in English. For some reason it\u2019s less funny in Chinese \ud83d\ude42 I don\u2019t know why\u2026)<\/p>\n

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Here’s a map of Indonesia. I think it’s a political map from 1998. I don’t know if anything has changed since then…I assume it’s not like Africa where borders change daily. Singapore is the tip of Malaysia (peninsular Malaysia) and cousin Robin lives in the far eastern part of Indonesia. We won’t make it to her house. \ud83d\ude41 We will try to make it to a lot of the other places! The westernmost island is Sumatra (lots of volcanic activity here…It “moves the world like no other place on earth”), the next island is Java (home to more volcanoes, temples, coffee plantations, then onto Bali, Lombok, and Nusa Tenggara (home to Komodo Island where the Komodo dragon lives! I hope to see this!)<\/p><\/div>\n

Feb 3<\/strong> \u2013 JoElyn leaves me for Malaysia. This is a sad day because I will lose one travel companion. It\u2019s also happy because I will gain two more! My brother\u2019s girlfriend (and my good friend) will meet me in Indonesia along with her sister. The three of us will play around the islands\/volcanoes\/coffee fields (I wonder if we take our name of \u201cjava\u201d for coffee from the island of Java? Anyone know?) for a while and then leave Indonesia. I hope to be much darker when I return to China. I\u2019ll try not to fry myself like I did on the shores of Thailand last February.<\/p>\n

Feb 13<\/strong> \u2013 Fly from Surabaya, Indonesia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Unfortunately, we won\u2019t have time to leave the airport and explore the capital city of KL, but I did get to do that last year. Here\u2019s a photo from that awesome adventure. I didn\u2019t really write about my trip last year. If you want, I\u2019ll intersperse information from Thailand as it compares to Indonesia\u2026 do you want? Hmm\u2026 I\u2019m not really surprised that no one is really reading the blog anymore. I haven\u2019t been a faithful writer this year.<\/p>\n

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I had one day in Malaysia last year! We spent our day at the towers and at Starbucks. \ud83d\ude42 It was a pretty great day!<\/p><\/div>\n

Feb 13 <\/strong>\u2013 Fly from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Kunming, China. If you recall from past travels, Kunming is one of my least favorite places in China. I don\u2019t really have a good reason. Maybe it\u2019s because I didn\u2019t get to spend enough time there. It will be the same for this trip. Sorry, Kunming. I\u2019m just not going to give you a chance. I could have learned to love you, but I\u2019m just not that interested.<\/p>\n

Feb 14<\/strong> \u2013 Fly from Kunming, China to XiShuangBanNa, China. \u00a0XSBN is a place that supposed to be like the Thailand of China. I\u2019ll do some comparing and get back to you. One thing I really want to do there is sleep overnight in a canopy treehouse. \u00a0In the Lonely Planet they call them \u201cSwiss Family Robinson\u201d style houses. \ud83d\ude42 Apparently you can observe elephants bathing below in the early morning hours\u2026I\u2019ll let you know! \u00a0I think we\u2019ll do some \u2018playing\u2019 around XSBN for a few days!<\/p>\n

Feb 17<\/strong> \u2013 Fly from XSBN toLijiang, China. You might remember my trip here from two years ago. There was that song that just kept playing? The Tiger Leaping Gorge? Horseback riding? Well, I\u2019m hiking the Gorge again, and I equally excited about it this time around. \u00a0I think it\u2019s true that there are places in China that I have been that I don\u2019t need to go to again. Lijiang is NOT one of those places. Well, Lijiang, maybe, but definitely not the gorge. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Feb 22<\/strong> \u2013 Fly from Lijiang to Beijing. While in Beijing with my guests, we will do some \u2018playing\u2019 around the city.<\/p>\n

Looks like a pretty full itinerary. I\u2019ll probably need a vacation from my vacation! Look for pictures in about a month or so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, some plans are finalizing and I’m getting very excited to have a break from life for a while. \u00a0Interested in where I’m headed? Well, here you go! Jan 22 \u2013 Fly to Singapore and have some good Schlomerville time with my cousin JoElyn and my cousin Robin and her family! I hope we play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}