{"id":32,"date":"2014-04-04T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T23:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2014-04-04T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T00:15:35","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had traveled some, but not a lot, throughout the first parts of my life. In the 1980&#8217;s I had visited Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean a few times, plus had the opportunity to drive across the US to California and also down to Florida. In the 1990&#8217;s, I traveled some more, mostly for business to Europe and to various places in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 2000, I started traveling a lot. I had the opportunity to live in Seoul, Korea for work and was able to spend time exploring different parts of Asia. I quit that job, but was traveling again in 2003 when I went to Japan to spend 4 months studying Japanese. And then another 2 months of study in 2005. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/peter-japan2005.blogspot.com\/\">Studying in Japan 2005<\/a>, <a>Studying in Japan 2003<\/a> and <a>Living in Asia 2000-01<\/a>, where I provided a blog (web log) online diary of my travels and experiences in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>I am still continuing to travel, adding Taiwan, Ireland, and Ecuador to the countries I nave visited, and revisiting some areas I had been to before.  map below shows where I have been so far.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chart.apis.google.com\/chart?cht=map:fixed=-70,-180,80,180&#038;chs=450x300&#038;chf=bg,s,336699&#038;chco=d0d0d0,cc0000&#038;chd=s:999999999999999999999999&#038;chld=BE|MC|IT|IE|DE|FR|SE|CH|GB|EC|US|CA|PR|MX|TT|NZ|AU|JP|CN|KR|SG|TW|TH|AG\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" ><br \/>visited 24 states (10.6%)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/douweosinga.com\/projects\/visited?region=world\">Create your own visited map of The World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had traveled some, but not a lot, throughout the first parts of my life. In the 1980&#8217;s I had visited Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean a few times, plus had the opportunity to drive across the US to California and also down to Florida. In the 1990&#8217;s, I traveled some more, mostly for business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/55"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}