{"id":396,"date":"2005-11-27T16:57:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2005-11-27T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T16:57:58","slug":"how_to_pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/how_to_pack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>or more appropriately, &#8220;How I Pack&#8221;.<br \/>\nPlane leaves on Tues AM.  Got a new, 26&#8243; roller expandable suitcase (because a 22&#8243; roller carry on dun hold everything on an overseas trip) and now need to fill it.<br \/>\nRemember how I had the 22&#8243; roller AND the red monster with a duffle inside?  I looked like the glam traveller (not), lugging both bags down from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juyoh.co.jp\">hotel<\/a>, down the street, up and down the overpass, around the construction zone and up into the <a href=\"http:\/\/hisaai-hp.hp.infoseek.co.jp\/JREast\/Joban\/Jo2_s_eg.html\">JR Station<\/a>.  Yeah right.<br \/>\nSo this is how packing begins.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/before.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/before.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/before-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd this is how it continues.  Notice how much the pile has grown?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/after.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/after.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/after-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s especially difficult because this is one of those &#8220;am on the other side of the planet, let&#8217;s see how many places I can visit&#8221;.  Note to self: <em>This method of travel is fine; just make sure all destinations are similar in climate!!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And we&#8217;re STILL not done&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nWhy so much stuff?  Tokyo is having San Francisco weather right now.  It&#8217;s a bit chilly.  15\/3 degrees c.  But HKG and SIN are in the high 20s.  HIGH 20s?? That&#8217;s frakking hot!!!  That means shorts and what not.  But Tokyo calls for jeans and jackets and long sleeves.  Gotta carry that stuff wherever I wind up.<br \/>\nOne of the reasons why I have this big case now is so there&#8217;s room inside.  To stash a pea coat.  And long pants.  Cuz I dun like being coooold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or more appropriately, &#8220;How I Pack&#8221;. Plane leaves on Tues AM. Got a new, 26&#8243; roller expandable suitcase (because a 22&#8243; roller carry on dun hold everything on an overseas trip) and now need to fill it. Remember how I had the 22&#8243; roller AND the red monster with a duffle inside? I looked like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/how_to_pack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Pack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-6o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}