{"id":3627,"date":"2011-10-12T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2011-10-12T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:45:01","slug":"balloon-fiesta-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/balloon-fiesta-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Fiesta Bound."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While our blog is still talking about our European trip, we have indeed been back home for a couple of months now. The trip to France and Croatia was amazing but at the same time, there are many days in Croatia that would bore you to tears if I chose to blog about them. So I will select a few memorable ones to share in some future posts. But for now, we are already planning another adventure.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSCN7696 by mali mish, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danlin\/6234119348\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6036\/6234119348_6f3cd9e487.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN7696\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After nearly 2 months in a foreign land without a car, we really missed being on the road. Although most people look at 7 weeks away from home as an eternity, it doesn&#8217;t even come close to the 200+ days we stayed in the Airstream in 2010. We are definitely still jonesing for a road trip and that&#8217;s exactly what we planned.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSCN7697 by mali mish, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danlin\/6233596481\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6119\/6233596481_aa820036c0.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN7697\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you tell the girls are excited about it?<\/p>\n<p>Since even before we left for Europe, I parked the Mali Mish<a href=\"\/2011\/05\/16\/backing-our-airstream-down-a-narrow-driveway\/\"> inside the newly built fence<\/a> back in May and have not moved it since. That is probably the longest it has ever sat still and we pulled her out for a proper cleaning before we set out on a little tour of the southwest.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to make it out to the International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque for the first time. Stay tuned for our first stop: Pioneertown!<\/p>\n<p>over and out,<br \/>\ndan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our blog is still talking about our European trip, we have indeed been back home for a couple of months now. The trip to France and Croatia was amazing but at the same time, there are many days in Croatia that would bore you to tears if I chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_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":[1,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-southwest-trip-of-fall-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkBzA-Wv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}