{"id":625,"date":"2009-07-04T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T10:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/?p=625"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:18:59","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/happy-fourth-of-july-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July 2009!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Andrew Cooper, 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 2: Late Night Packing…<\/p>\n

July 3: Long Flight (five and one-half hours), then we finally disembark in Seattle, collect our luggage, and make our way to the rental car agency (DarkerView.com<\/a>: “Road Trip” had the story there!). <\/p>\n

We pack our luggage in the car any which way it takes; and using the paper map provided with the car rental, we find our way East.<\/p>\n

We reach Ellensburg, Washington and the Days Inn at some time around 1:00am on July 4th (ummm…that was this morning). <\/p>\n

I didn’t sleep much the night of July 2nd. I didn’t sleep-in on the morning of July 3rd. I didn’t sleep as I usually do on the five and one-half hour flight nor did I sleep as I normally do during the three- to four-hour drive from Seattle to Ellensburg. <\/p>\n

Did I finally sleep when we got settled in our room in Ellensburg, Washington? Ummmm. No. Not until 2:45am. And when I did finally sleep, it was a fitful sleep at best. <\/p>\n

It is a strange bed. There are unfamiliar sounds all about. Worst, I think, is there is no purr<\/em><\/strong> next to me. No tickling whiskers in my face. No demands made of my presence. Just unfamiliar sounds and then n-o-t-h-i-n-g…<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n

It seems like I had finally gotten to sleep, and it was time to get going again so we didn’t miss breakfast. I am still on Hawai’i time… <\/p>\n

First time off Island since moving to Hawai`i. \ud83d\ude10 Going home is going to be interesting \ud83d\ude2e <\/p>\n

For several postings about our trip AND our July Fourth, Check out A Darkerview<\/a><\/p>\n

I will be putting up several postings about our trip; but not until we get home again. I will also have pictures to post then, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 2: Late Night Packing… July 3: Long Flight (five and one-half hours), then we finally disembark in Seattle, collect our luggage, and make our way to the rental car agency (DarkerView.com: “Road Trip” had the story there!). We pack our luggage in the car any which way it takes; and using the paper map provided with the car rental, we find our way East. We reach Ellensburg, Washington and the Days Inn at some time around 1:00am on July 4th (ummm…that was this morning). I didn’t sleep much the night of July 2nd. I didn’t sleep-in on the morning of July 3rd. I didn’t sleep as I usually do on the five and one-half hour flight nor did I sleep as I normally do during the three- to four-hour drive from Seattle to Ellensburg. Did I finally sleep when we got settled in our room in Ellensburg, Washington? Ummmm. No. Not until 2:45am. And when I did finally sleep, it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,9,11],"tags":[59,75,61,34],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7j5sP-a5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}