{"id":39,"date":"2016-08-20T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-08-20T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:54:08","slug":"fly-pdx-bye-pdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/2016\/08\/20\/fly-pdx-bye-pdx\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly PDX, Bye PDX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s entry is brought to you, dear reader, over American, Canadian and British\u00a0airwaves! Specifically, those of PDX (Portland, OR, International<\/p>\n

\"Tick,
Tick, tock, tick, tock, London’s on the clock!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Airport), YVR (Vancouver, BC, International Airport) and Scape East (my\u00a0dorm\/home away from home). I love air travel and being in airports – there’s a unique, indescribable charge\u00a0to the atmosphere, and\u00a0airports are one of\u00a0very few\u00a0places\u00a0that are designed for only temporary occupation. It’s a bustling hive of perpetual\u00a0going<\/em>.\u00a0People often talk of\u00a0‘enjoying the journey’ and say that\u00a0‘the journey, not the destination, is what\u00a0matters’, yet paradoxically dislike spending time in airports, which are inherently crucial to most long-distance journeys.\u00a0As a kid, I\u00a0agreed. I wanted to be able\u00a0to get on a plane right away and get to wherever it was I\u00a0was going.<\/p>\n

\"I'm
I’m smiling because the plane is on time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, however, I’ve grown to appreciate the diversity\u00a0in both the visitors\u00a0and their journeys; I cannot fathom the sheer number of people who\u00a0have used, are using, and will use\u00a0Portland\/Vancouver\/Heathrow\/etc. as a vessel for their travels, nor can I imagine exactly how and to what extent those people and journeys\u00a0have crossed paths with my own. We’re all strangers to each other, and we will most likely never see many of\u00a0those around us again in our entire lives.<\/p>\n

\"Vancouver
Vancouver bound!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But we’re here now, together, on separate paths that collided by chance in bright airports with, for example, famous carpet.<\/p>\n

After traveling for a lot of hours (honestly, I lost track after awhile), I made it safely to London around 2:30 pm local time, and am posting this from my flat after experiencing some technological difficulties at the Vancouver airport during my layover between flights. Cheerio, mates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s entry is brought to you, dear reader, over American, Canadian and British\u00a0airwaves! Specifically, those of PDX (Portland, OR, International Airport), YVR (Vancouver, BC, International Airport) and Scape East (my\u00a0dorm\/home away from home). I love air travel and being in airports – there’s a unique, indescribable charge\u00a0to the atmosphere, and\u00a0airports are one of\u00a0very few\u00a0places\u00a0that are … Continue reading Fly PDX, Bye PDX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7979,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","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\/p7R7eI-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/adventuresacrossthepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}